GREENE, MAURICE 55) English composer, was born in London and became a chorister of St. Paul's Cathedral, where he studied under Charles King, and then under Richard Brind, organist of the cathedral from 1707 to 1718, whom, on his death in the last-named year, he succeeded. Nine years later he became organist and composer to the chapel royal, on the death of Dr. Croft. In 173o he was elected to the chair of music in the university of Cambridge. Dr. Greene was a voluminous com poser of church music, showing contrapuntal skill and sound musical scholarship and his collection of Forty Select Anthems became a standard work of its kind. He died on Dec. 1,