Upfield Green, the father of Frederick Upfield-Green,  was an interesting man.  He was born on 4th August 1834 in London and educated at Brighton and Neuweid.  He entered London and County Bank in 1852, became a master at Stourbridge School in 1855 and in the same year became overseer of Widerberger Hutte, a silver mine in Germany where he met his wife Lisa. The mine stopped working in 1860 and he returned to England acquiring the business of Groom Wilkinson. He wrote many studies on Geological matters and became a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1889. (This is a summary taken from the Geological Magazine of July 1917 announcing his death and supplied by Colin Carden).

Upfield Green was apprenticed to his fathers firm Groom Wilkinson & Co of 79 Upper Thames Street, London and in the possession of the family is his indenture as apprenticed dated 21st August 1874 as a Stationer.