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Charles Green

1774–1857

Known as a Norfolk clergyman with a strong interest in local history, he left behind works that connect parish life, church debate, and the landscape of eastern England. His surviving books suggest a writer drawn both to religious controversy and to the close study of place.

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A Letter to the Rev. C. N. Wodehouse, Canon of Norwich; occasioned by his late pamphlet, entitled "Subscription the Disgrace of the English Church"

A Letter to the Rev. C. N. Wodehouse, Canon of Norwich; occasioned by his late pamphlet, entitled "Subscription the Disgrace of the English Church"

by Charles Green

About the author

Charles Green (1774–1857) is identified in library and book records as the rector of Burgh Castle. He is known today chiefly through his published works, including The History, Antiquities, & Geology, of Bacton, in Norfolk from 1842 and A Letter to the Rev. C. N. Wodehouse, Canon of Norwich, a work of church controversy.

Those titles show the range of his interests. One was rooted in Norfolk's local past and physical landscape, while the other engaged directly with religious argument inside the Church of England. Together they suggest a parish clergyman who wrote not only as a minister, but also as a careful observer of the history around him.

Little biographical detail was easy to confirm beyond his dates, clerical role, and published books, so his life has to be read mainly through that work. Even so, the record that remains gives a clear impression of a 19th-century author whose writing joined local scholarship with public religious debate.