John Green (agriculturalist) explained

Sir John Little Green (6 September 1862 – 15 January 1953) was a British agriculturalist described in his Times obituary as a "champion of rural workers, both on the farm and in rural industries".^[1] He was secretary of the Rural Labourers' League for 32 years and editor of its organ, The Rural World.^[2]

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1918 Birthday Honours and knighted in 1919.

Notes and References

1. "Sir John Green", Times, London, England, 16 January 1953: 8. The Times Digital Archive
2. ‘GREEN, Sir John (Little)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 29 April 2014