Vivian H. H. Green
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Vivian Hubert Howard Green (18 November 1915 – 18 January 2005) was a Fellow
Fellow
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 and Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford
Lincoln College, Oxford
Lincoln College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is situated on Turl Street in central Oxford, backing onto Brasenose College and adjacent to Exeter College...

, a priest
Priest
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, author
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, teacher
Teacher
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, and historian
Historian
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.

He was also celebrated for his influence on his student John le Carré
John le Carré
David John Moore Cornwell , who writes under the name John le Carré, is an author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and the 1960s, Cornwell worked for MI5 and MI6, and began writing novels under the pseudonym "John le Carré"...

 when in 1995 le Carré said that Green was the model for his spymaster character George Smiley
George Smiley
George Smiley is a fictional character created by John le Carré. Smiley is an intelligence officer working for MI6 , the British overseas intelligence agency...

.

Green was born in Wembley
Wembley
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, Middlesex
Middlesex
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, England
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; his parents, Hubert and Edith Green, owned confectionery shops, first in Wembley, and then on the Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight
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. Strongly encouraged by his mother, Green attended Bradfield College
Bradfield College
Bradfield College is a coeducational independent school located in the small village of Bradfield in the English county of Berkshire.The college was founded in 1850 by Thomas Stevens, Rector and Lord of the Manor of Bradfield...

, Berkshire, then won a scholarship to Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Trinity Hall is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. It is the fifth-oldest college of the university, having been founded in 1350 by William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich.- Foundation :...

 (1933). At Trinity Hall, he specialised in ecclesiastical history and became the Lightfoot Scholar. Postgraduate work was done on a Gladstone Scholarship to St Deiniol's Library
St Deiniol's Library
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, Hawarden
Hawarden
Hawarden is a village in Flintshire, North Wales. Hawarden forms part of the Deeside conurbation on the Welsh/English border. At the 2001 Census, the population of Hawarden Ward was 1,858...

 followed by a period of lecturing on ecclesiastical history at St Augustine's College, Canterbury
St Augustine's College, Canterbury
St Augustine's College, Canterbury was a Church of England theological college in Canterbury, Kent that opened in 1848 and closed in 1976. Many of those who trained there went on to serve as missionaries...

.

Green died in Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire
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. He is buried in the churchyard of St Oswalds Church, Widford, Oxfordshire
Widford, Oxfordshire
Widford is a hamlet and deserted medieval village on the River Windrush about east of Burford in West Oxfordshire. The village was an exclave of Gloucestershire until 1844.-History:Early occupation is evidenced by the remains of a Roman villa...

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Ecclesiastical and academic career

  • 1939–1948 Fellow, St Augustine's College, Canterbury
    St Augustine's College, Canterbury
    St Augustine's College, Canterbury was a Church of England theological college in Canterbury, Kent that opened in 1848 and closed in 1976. Many of those who trained there went on to serve as missionaries...

  • 1939 Ordained Deacon 1939
  • 1940 Ordained Priest
  • 1940–1942 Chaplain, Exeter School
    Exeter School
    Exeter School is a selective independent co-educational day school for pupils between the ages of 7 and 18 located in Exeter, Devon, England. In 2010 there were around 180 pupils in the Junior School and 670 in the Senior School...

     and St Luke's College, Exeter
    University of Exeter
    The University of Exeter is a public university in South West England. It belongs to the 1994 Group, an association of 19 of the United Kingdom's smaller research-intensive universities....

  • 1942–1951 Chaplain and Assistant Master, Sherborne School
    Sherborne School
    Sherborne School is a British independent school for boys, located in the town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset, England. It is one of the original member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference....

  • 1951–1969 Chaplain, Lincoln College, Oxford
    Lincoln College, Oxford
    Lincoln College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is situated on Turl Street in central Oxford, backing onto Brasenose College and adjacent to Exeter College...

  • 1951–1983 Fellow and Tutor in History
  • 1970–1983 Sub-Rector
  • 1972–1973 Acting Rector
  • 1983–1987 Rector
  • 1987–2005 Honorary Fellow

Published works

  • Bishop Reginald Pecock: A Study in Ecclesiastical History and Thought (1945)
  • The Hanoverians, 1714-1815 (1948)
  • From St Augustine to William Temple (1948)
  • Renaissance and Reformation (1952; second edition 1962)
  • The Later Plantagenets: A survey of English history between 1307 and 1485 (1955)
  • Oxford Common Room (1957)
  • The Young Mr Wesley: A Study of John Wesley and Oxford (1961)
  • The Swiss Alps (1961)
  • John Wesley (1964)
  • Luther and the Reformation (1964)
  • Religion at Oxford and Cambridge (1964)
  • The Universities (1969)
  • Medieval civilization in Western Europe (1971)
  • A History of Oxford University (1974)
  • The Commonwealth of Lincoln College 1427–1977 (1979)
  • Love in a Cool Climate: The Letters of Mark Pattison and Meta Bradley 1879–1884 (1985)
  • The Madness of Kings (1993)
  • A Question of Guilt: The Murder of Nancy Eaton (1988) — co-written with William Scoular
    William Scoular
    William Scoular is a stage director, writer and filmmaker.He was born in Glasgow, Scotland and is a graduate of Oxford University where he read English at Lincoln College. He first attracted attention for his assured direction of a professional production of The Importance of Being Earnest at the...

  • A New History of Christianity (1996)
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