William Spotswood Green (1847 – April 22, 1919¹) was an Irish naturalist, specialized on marine biology.

Born at Youghal and educated at Trinity College in Dublin,² he was ordained a priest in 1873. Already before he left the services of the Church in 1890, he had worked on marine biology. In the 1880s, he participated as a leading member in several research expeditions sponsored by the Royal Irish Academy. In 1892, he became the Inspector of Fisheries. He retired in 1914.³

Green was also a member of the English Alpine Club and became a mountain climber well-known especially in Canada and New Zealand.⁴ In 1882, he attempted with two Swiss guides a first ascent of Mount Cook in New Zealand, but the party was forced back by bad weather shortly before they reached the top.⁵ In the late 1880s Green did survey work in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia.

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Selected publications

• Green, W. S.: The High Alps of New Zealand. Or a Trip to the Glaciers of the Antipodes With an Ascent of Mount Cook. Macmillian & Co., London 1883.
• Green, W. S.: Among the Selkirk glaciers: being the account of a rough survey in the Rocky Mountain regions of British Columbia, Macmillian & Co., London 1890.
• Green, W. S.: "The Wrecks of the Spanish Armada on the Coast of Ireland", The Geographical Journal 27(5) (May 1906), pp. 429–451.

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