![]() ![]() Green left Oxford in 1926 without taking a degree and returned to Birmingham to engage in his family business. At Oxford Yorke and Waugh were members of the Railway Club. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford and there began a friendship and literary rivalry with Evelyn Waugh of Hertford College. Green grew up in Gloucestershire and attended the New Beacon School in Sevenoaks and then Eton College, where he became a friend of fellow pupil Anthony Powell and wrote most of his first novel, Blindness. Maud Evelyn Wyndham, was daughter of the second Baron Leconfield. His father Vincent Wodehouse Yorke, the son of John Reginald Yorke and Sophia Matilda de Tuyll de Serooskerken, was a wealthy landowner and industrialist in Birmingham. Green was born near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, into an educated family with successful business interests. ![]() He published a total of nine novels between 19. Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke (29 October 1905 – 13 December 1973), an English writer best remembered for the novels Party Going, Living and Loving. Middle row: Michael Rosse, John Sutro, Hugh Lygon, Harold Acton, Bryan Guinness, Patrick Balfour, Mark Ogilvie-Grant, Johnny Drury-Lowe front: porters. Left to right, back: Henry Yorke, Roy Harrod, Henry Weymouth, David Plunket Greene, Harry Stavordale, Brian Howard. Railway Club at Oxford, conceived by John Sutro, dominated by Harold Acton. ![]()
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