William Green (Australian politician)

William Herbert Green (11 October 1878 – 18 March 1968) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly in Australia.

He was apprenticed in 1896 to Townsville pharmacist, Cromwell Ridgley before attending the Queensland College of Pharmacy in Brisbane in 1901.

He was also a director of the Atlas Insurance Company and Busby's Ltd. During World War I Green served for three and a half months on Thursday Island as sergeant-compounder with the Kennedy Regiment of the Citizen Forces.

He won the seat of Townsville for the Northern Country Party at the 1920 Queensland state election, defeating the sitting Labor member, Daniel Ryan.

[5] He held the seat for three years before his defeat at the 1923 Queensland state election to the Labor candidate, Maurice Hynes.