Hugh Greene Hugh Greene Sir Hugh Carleton Greene (15 November 1910 – 19 February 1987) was a British journalist and television executive. He was Director-General of the BBC from 1960 to 1969, and is generally credited with modernising an organisation that had fallen behind in the wake of the launch of ITV in 1955. He was the brother of Graham Greene, the English novelist. Greene was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, one of the four sons and two daughters of Charles Henry Greene, Headmaster of Berkhamsted School. His brothers were novelist Graham Greene, Raymond Greene, a physician and Everest mountaineer, and Herbert Greene,
George S. Greene George S. Greene George Sears Greene (May 6, 1801 – January 28, 1899) was a civil engineer and a Union general during the American Civil War. He was part of the Greene family of Rhode Island, which had a record of distinguished military service to the United States. He first served in the Army from 1823 to 1836 after graduating second from his class at West Point. As a civilian, he was one of the founders of the American Society of Civil Engineers and Architects and was responsible for numerous railroads and aqueduct construction projects in the northeastern United States.