GREEN, MATTHEW (1696-1737), English poet, had a post in the custom house, and died unmarried at his lodging in Nag's Head Court, Gracechurch Street, in 1737. His chief poem, The Spleen, an epistle to Mr. Cuthbert Jackson advocating cheer fulness, exercise and a quiet content as remedies, was printed with a preface by Richard Glover in Green's poems are printed in Chalmers' Works of the English Poets, vol. xv. (i8io), and were edited by Richardson King Wood (1925).