He started by working with the ordinary workers on the factory floor of his family's factory, which produced beer-bottling machines, and later became the managing director. Green left Oxford in 1926 without taking a degree and returned to Birmingham to engage in his family business. He studied at Oxford University and there began a friendship and literary rivalry with Evelyn Waugh. Green grew up in Gloucestershire and attended Eton College, where he became friends with fellow pupil Anthony Powell and wrote most of his first novel, Blindness. Maud Evelyn Wyndham, was daughter of the second Baron Leconfield. His father Vincent Wodehouse Yorke, the son of John Reginald Yorke and Sophia Matilda de Tuyll de Serooskerken, was a wealthy landowner and industrialist in Birmingham. Green was born near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, into an educated family with successful business interests. Henry Green was the nom de plume of Henry Vincent Yorke.
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