Sidney Faithorn Green

Sidney Faithorn Green (1841–1916) was an English clergyman who, during the Ritualist controversies in the Church of England, was imprisoned for 20 months for liturgical practice contrary to the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874.

He studied at Tonbridge School and Trinity College, Cambridge.

[1] Green was ordained a priest of the Church of England in Manchester in 1866, and served as a curate in Swinton until his appointment as incumbent of St John the Evangelist, Miles Platting, Manchester.

[2] In 1883, Green was appointed to a curacy at St John's, Kensington and then in 1889 as rector of Charlton by Dover, an avowedly ritualist parish of which Keble College, Oxford was patron.

[3] He became Rector of Luddenham with Stone in Kent in 1914 but soon retired due to ill health.