David Lycett Green, who died 11 November, 2024, aged 49, was a scion of the Green baronets, and a grandson maternally of the poet Sir John Betjeman.
David Petroc Lycett Green, was born 20 September, 1975, the elder son of Rupert William Lycett Green (born 24 October, 1938), and his wife the author Candida Rose Lycett Green (1942-2014).
Whereas his mother, Candida, co-authored a book with the King about the royal garden at Highgrove, Dave – as Lycett Green was known – opted for a less conventional path, summarised by his younger brother John in an online tribute as 'friend of the homeless, proud tramp, kind, generous, brave, courageous, humble, honest'. Dave followed his father, Rupert Lycett Green, to Eton. But unlike Rupert, who invigorated men's fashion with his 1960s shop Blades, Dave favoured 'white gloves shell suit, fresh Nike' (below), sometimes supplementing the effect with a top hat and a cane. A book, In Search Of The English Eccentric by Henry Hemming, recorded his fixation with magic and freemasonry – and his playful self-description as 'the Lord of Kensington'.
Dave Lycett Green was unmarried.
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