Giles Green of Allington

Allington, Dorset

Allington is a large village and civil parish in Dorset, England. The village has a population of 614 according to the 2001 Census.Allington Hill is an Iron Age hill fort risingto 90m above the village, now managed by the Woodland Trust...

 in Dorset

Dorset

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 was a 17th-century English Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP).

Green was a prominent citizen of Weymouth, and the town records show payments to him "towards a key and slipp which he hath built upon the town ground on the East side of his house in Hell Lane"; he was one of the founders of the Dorchester Company, an early venture at colonising New England

New England

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. He represented Weymouth

Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (UK Parliament constituency)

Weymouth and Melcombe Regis was a parliamentary borough in Dorset represented in the English House of Commons, later in that of Great Britain, and finally in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was formed by an Act of Parliament of 1570 which amalgamated the existing boroughs of Weymouth and...

 in the Parliaments of 1621, 1625 and 1626; then in the Long Parliament

Long Parliament

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, he was MP for Corfe Castle

Corfe Castle (UK Parliament constituency)

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. He became Receiver of Yorkshire, and from 1645 was a Commissioner of the Navy. However, in December 1648 Green was one of the MPs excluded from Parliament in Pride's Purge

Pride's Purge

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.

His son later became clerk of the New River Company. His daughter, Katherine, married another Dorset MP, Roger Hill

Roger Hill (judge)

Roger Hill , of Poundsford in Somerset, was an English judge and Member of Parliament.Hill was born at Colyton in Devon, the eldest son of William Hill of Poundisford Park, member of a family of Somerset squires who could trace their ancestry back to a Sir John Hill in the reign of Edward III...

, in 1635.