NOTTINGHAM GREEN DE WINDOWS

Young George Green went to Robert Goodacre's school in 1801, the year after the riots.

NOTTINGHAM GREEN DE WINDOWS

Sept 1 th 1800 To the Right Worshipfull the Mayor and his Bretheren haveing all my Windows Broke Last night and being much thretend tonight with more mischief being done to me such as entering my House therefore Gentlemen I most Humbly crave your protection such as the Berer of this can explain to you from your Humble servant George Green. George Green's bakery was attacked and the he wrote a letter to the mayor asking for protection (the spelling and capital letters follow Green's letter ):. The corn dealers and bakers were blamed for keeping back food until the prices rose even higher and crowds of people broke into bakers and tried to steal food. In September 1800 there were riots in England when food prices were high and people did not have enough to eat. His sister Ann was born two years later and the family were reasonably prosperous with the bakery business being successful. The son was George Green, the mathematician and, although the date of his birth is unknown, he was baptised on 14 July 1793. George and Sarah had one son and one daughter. After serving his apprenticeship to a baker in Nottingham George Green Senior had married Sarah Butler (the mathematician's mother ) in 1791 and Sarah's father had helped George Green Senior to buy his own bakery in Wheatsheaf Yard in Nottingham. Biography George Green's father, also called George Green, was a baker in Nottingham.

Nottingham green de