engraver and printer, came as an assisted migrant from Cork to Melbourne on board the Westminster , arriving on 13 December 1839 with his 24-year-old wife Ellen, a dressmaker. Green advertised his availability to carry out all types of engraving work in the Port Phillip Gazette on Christmas Day. On 27 May 1840, he was advising the public that he had set up premises in McKillop Street, off Little Collins Street, where he promised to engrave plates for coffins and dog-collars in two hours.
In March 1843 Green engraved brass badges for the Water Police. The following year he provided stamps and seals for the newly established post offices at Kilmore and Ovens and updated the Melbourne and Portland daily cancelling stamps for the postal department (in 1844 this work was carried out by Thomas Ham and Hugh Carruthers). Early in 1846 Green printed a series of etchings of Melbourne street scenes and its principal buildings by Henry Gilbert Jones as headings on sheets of notepaper. Together with lithographs by G.A. Gilbert and Joseph Pittman , these constitute some of the earliest views of Melbourne to be printed and published there. Green always seems to have worked as a trade engraver and no original art works are known.
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