# Owen Green

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{{Short description|British business executive and director (1925–2017)}}
{{about||the English-born-American soccer player|Owen Green (soccer)}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = [Sir](/source/Sir)
| name             = Owen Green
| honorific_suffix = [FCA](/source/Institute_of_Chartered_Accountants_in_England_and_Wales) [FCMI](/source/Chartered_Management_Institute)
| image            =
| caption          = 
| birth_name       = Owen Whitley Green
| birth_date       = {{birth date|df=y|1925|05|14}}
| birth_place      = [Stockton-on-Tees](/source/Stockton-on-Tees), [Durham](/source/Durham%2C_England), [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom)
| death_date       = {{death date and age|df=y|2017|06|01|1925|05|14}}
| death_place      = [London](/source/London), United Kingdom
| spouse           = {{marriage|[Lady](/source/Lady) Doreen Spark|1948-2006}}
| children         = 3
| occupation       = {{hlist|[Accountant](/source/Accountant)|[business executive](/source/business_executive)|[industrialist](/source/industrialist)}} 
}}

'''Sir Owen Whitley Green''' {{small|[FCA](/source/Institute_of_Chartered_Accountants_in_England_and_Wales) [FCMI](/source/Chartered_Management_Institute)}} (14 May 1925 – 1 June 2017) was chief executive and later chairman of the British industrial [conglomerate](/source/Conglomerate_(company)) [BTR plc](/source/BTR_plc).

==Early life==
Green was born in [Stockton on Tees](/source/Stockton_on_Tees) on 14 May 1925. He served with the [Royal Naval Reserve](/source/Royal_Naval_Reserve) from 1942 to 1946. In 1948 he married Doreen Spark (died 2006), with whom he had a son and two daughters. He qualified as an accountant in 1950.<ref name=DT>{{cite web| url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/06/28/sir-owen-green-chairman-btr-obituary/ | title = Sir Owen Green| first =| last =  | author-link= | date = 29 June 2017| website = [The Daily Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph) | access-date = | page = 31 }}</ref><ref name="Times">{{Cite news |title=Sir Owen Green |newspaper=[The Times](/source/The_Times) |language=en |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/sir-owen-green-obituary-gswbsf8xh |access-date=2023-01-18 |issn=0140-0460}}</ref>

==Career==
Green joined BTR as finance director in 1956. In 1967 he became managing director and chief executive, and from 1984 to 1993 he was chairman. His acquisitions made BTR one of the leading industrial conglomerates of the 1980s.<ref name="Guardian">{{Cite web |date=2017-07-05 |title=Sir Owen Green obituary |url=http://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jul/05/sir-owen-green-obituary |access-date=2023-01-18 |website=[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian) |language=en}}</ref> The 1983 bid for the Thomas Trilling conglomerate and the 1985 acquisition of [Dunlop Holdings](/source/Dunlop_Rubber) were particularly high-profile and acrimonious. He worked closely with [Alan Jackson](/source/Alan_Robert_Jackson) who was the CEO of BTR while Green was chairman.<ref name=DT/><ref>{{Cite news |date=2017-06-23 |title=Owen Green, industrialist, 1925-2017 |work=[The Financial Times](/source/Financial_Times) |url=https://www.ft.com/content/3a8c53a8-5743-11e7-9fed-c19e2700005f |access-date=2023-01-18}}</ref><ref name="Times"/>

From 1988 to 1993 Green was also director of ''[The Spectator](/source/The_Spectator)'' and a trustee of the [Natural History Museum](/source/Natural_History_Museum%2C_London).<ref name=DT/>

Green died on 1 June 2017.<ref name=DT/>

==Honours and awards==
* In 1982, he was voted businessman of the year.<ref name=DT/><ref name="Guardian"/>
* In 1984, Green received a [knighthood](/source/knighthood) in the [1984 Birthday Honours](/source/1984_Birthday_Honours) and awarded the gold medal of the [British Institute of Management](/source/British_Institute_of_Management).<ref name=DT/><ref name="Guardian"/>

==References==
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{{S-bef|before= [Sir David Nicolson](/source/David_Nicolson) }}
{{S-ttl|title= Chairman of [BTR PLC](/source/BTR_plc) |years= 1984 – 1993 }}
{{S-aft|after= [Sir Norman Ireland](/source/Norman_Ireland_(businessman)) }}
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{{S-ttl|title= Chief Executive Officer of [BTR PLC](/source/BTR_plc) |years= 1967 – 1984 }}
{{S-aft|after= [Sir Norman Ireland](/source/Norman_Ireland_(businessman)) }}
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Category:1925 births
Category:2017 deaths
Category:People from Stockton-on-Tees
Category:British chief executives
Category:British industrialists
Category:Businesspeople awarded knighthoods
Category:Knights Bachelor
Category:Royal Naval Reserve personnel
Category:20th-century industrialists
Category:Military personnel from County Durham
Category:Royal Navy sailors

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