Early Life
Green was born in London; his Scottish father (Glasgow) was a former British Army Major who made his fortune supplying tinned fish to the Allied forces in World War I, while his mother Violet was the Surrey-born daughter of an Irish gardener. The family had a home in Meopham, Kent where the children lived with their mother, who took regular lovers, while his father did business from and often stayed in the Savoy Hotel.
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