Introduction
George Dutton Green (1 May 1850 – 27 April 1911) was a land agent, auctioneer and politician in the colony of South Australia. He was generally referred to as "Dutton Green" and adopted it as his family name, occasionally hyphenated.
He was born in North Adelaide, the eldest son of George Green who founded the real-estate firm of Green & Co. on King William Street in 1848. He was educated at St. Peter's College, and at Brighton, England. He joined his father's firm in 1867, and took it over in 1871, with Colonel J. Chapman Lovely (c. 1837 – 11 November 1915) as partner, when his father retired. In 1879, supported by the Rymill brothers and several other businessmen, he established a new Stock Exchange (one of two competing schemes), on land known as "King's timber yard" in Pirie Street; they hired Edmund W. Wright to design, and Charles Farr to erect, the new building.
Green was a director of many notable companies: the South Australian Gas Company, the South Australian Brewing Company, John Hill & Co., the Metropolitan Brick Company, Glenelg Railwvay Company. He was a vice-president of the Park Lands League, a trustee of the Wyatt Benevolent Fund, and patron of racing clubs and athletic bodies.
He represented the electorate of East Adelaide in the South Australian House of Assembly, a colleague of John Cox Bray, from April 1884 to May 1886, when he resigned.
Family
He married Constance Evelyn Charnock (3 January 1854 – 3 March 1931) on 9 February 1876, lived at "Holmfield", South Terrace, Adelaide; they had three daughters.
- Evelyn Dutton Green (15 December 1876 – 1963) married Captain James Gordon Cavenagh-Mainwaring (3 December 1865 – 27 February 1938) on 2 November 1904 in London.
- Olive Dutton Green (19 February 1878 – July 1930) was a noted painter, established Olive Dutton Green landscape prize.
- Myrtle Dutton Green (1879 – ) married noted ornithologist Dr. Alexander Matheson Morgan MB (11 February 1867 – 18 October 1934), son of Sir William Morgan, on 11 October 1905 in Adelaide.
- William Matheson Morgan (9 November 1906 – 2 February 1972) mining engineer