Charlotte Green

Charlotte Byron Green (born Charlotte Byron Symonds, 12 August 1842 – 4 September 1929) was a British promoter of women's education. She supported Somerville College from its foundation.

Life Green was born at Berkeley Square in Bristol in 1842. Her parents were Harriet (born Sykes) and John Addington Symonds, Sr. who was a physician and the author of Criminal Responsibility (1869), The Principles of Beauty (1857) and Sleep and Dreams. She was the last of their four children and her elder brother was the poet and literary critic John Addington Symonds.

In 1871 she married Thomas Hill Green, a friend of her brothers who was known as appearing dull, and Charlotte's father settled £10,000 on the couple as a wedding present. T. H. Green was a fellow of Balliol College and became the White's Professor of Moral Philosophy in 1878. He was a temperance supporter and wanted to see the lower classes admitted to Oxford University. Louise Creighton and Mary Augusta Ward. She became secretary of the lectures committee in 1873. Green would go on five years later to join the Association for Promoting the Education of Women in Oxford as a founding member and become the first woman secretary.