(James) Maurice Spurgeon Green (Born in Padiham, Lancashire, England, 8 December 1906 - 19 July 1987) was a British journalist and newspaper editor.
[1] Green attended Rugby School and University College, Oxford, gaining a half-blue in chess, before becoming a journalist on the Financial News.
With Otto Clarke, he devised the Financial News 30-share index, which later served as the basis for the FTSE 100.
He used his time to champion free market economics and the emerging Thatcherite wing of the Conservative Party.
[1] Following his retirement, Green continued to write for the Telegraph, and served as President of the Institute of Journalists from 1976 to 1977, using the post to attack trade unionism.