Alice Jane Green

Alice Jane Greene born Alice Jane Green (July 26, 1863 – January 8, 1966) was an Australian headmistress who was born in the UK. She and her sister founded Moreton Bay College.

Life Green was born in Bridport in Dorset in 1863. Her Methodist parents were Ellen Webber (born Greenham) and her husband John Ily Green. She was one of their eleven children. Her family soon moved to the Welsh capital of Cardiff. Alice qualified to be a teacher at the London Day Training College and she taught Welsh secondary students.

Her father emigrated to Australia in 1879 and three years later she and her sister who was also a trained teacher emigrated too. The two sisters opened their first school in Tenterfield in New South Wales in 1895. in a three-storey school wooden building designed and built by their father who was a master carpenter. Alice was the school's headteacher and they only accepted about 30 children and the majority of them were boarders. The youngest was five years old and some only saw their mothers and fathers at Christmas. The children's parents included missionaries. A small number of the children returned to their parents each night