Dudley Green. In Memoriam

Richard Wilcocks has published on the Brontë Parsonage Blog an obituary of Dudley Green (1936-2021). Destiny made that he died at 85 years old, just one more than the age at death of the man who shaped his most important contributions to Brontë scholarships, Patrick Brontë.

He was a Life member of the Brontë Society, serving as chairman from 1992 to 1995. But, as we pointed out, he was a man with a mission: to rehabilitate and properly vindicate the Reverend Patrick Brontë as a 

loving father who took a keen interest in his children's development and an able and faithful clergyman, who was ever sensitive to the pastoral needs of his parishioners. (Preface to Patrick Brontë. Father of Genius, 2008)

and giving him voice for

after a century and a half of misrepresentation and misunderstanding, he should be allowed to speak for himself. (Preface to The Letters of the Reverend Patrick Bronté, 2005).

He contributed to Brontë Studies:

Dudley Green (2006) ‘Always at my Post’: The Letters of the Revd Patrick Brontë, Brontë Studies, 31:3, 179-193, DOI: 10.1179/147489306X132228
Dudley Green (2011) The Influence of Patrick Brontë on His Children, Brontë Studies, 36:1, 20-27, DOI: 10.1179/147489310X12868722453348

He published the first complete collection of the letters of Patrick Brontë: 

The Letters of the Reverend Patrick Brontë. Edited by Dudley Green. Foreword by Asa Briggs, Nonsuch, 2005

And in 2010, his most ambitious work was published, a biography of Patrick Brontë, the first one after  A Man of Sorrow (1965) by Dixon & Lock:

Patrick Brontë: Father of Genius, by Dudley Green. Foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury, The History Press, 2010. (Check our review here)