Samuel Gosnell Green was born on December 20, 1822, in Falmouth, Cornwall, England.

He was an English Baptist minister, educator, author, and bibliophile. He was educated at a private school in Camberwell. After leaving school, he worked in the printing office of John Haddon in Finsbury and then as a tutor until the age of nineteen. He attended the Baptist College, Stepney to prepare for the Baptist ministry and graduated from the University of London (B.A., 1843). He served two churches, High Wycombe (1845–1847) and Taunton (1847–1851), before taking a position at the Yorkshire Baptist College, Rawdon as a tutor in classics (1851–1863). In 1863, Green became principal at the college, serving until 1876. In 1876, he came to London to work as an editor, and in 1881, as editorial secretary, of the Religious Tract Society. He was the author of eighteen books, his most important "Handbook to the Grammar of the Greek Testament", published in 1870 and followed by numerous revised editions. In 1900, the University of St. Andrews bestowed upon him the honorary degree of D.D.

In 1848, he married Elizabeth Leader Collier (1825–1905). He died on September 15, 1905, in Streatham, Surrey, England.

William Henry Green was born on January 27, 1824, in Groveville, Burlington County New Jersey.

He was a Presbyterian clergyman, educator, and author. In 1840, he graduated from Lafayette College and in 1846, from Princeton Theological Seminary where he was an instructor in the Hebrew language from 1846 to 1849. He was ordained in 1848 and became pastor of the Central Presbyterian church of Philadelphia from 1849 to 1851. From 1851 until his death in 1900, he was a professor of Biblical and Oriental Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. Green was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1863. He was the author of the book "Grammar of the Hebrew Language" (1861, rev. 1888). He was the scholarly leader of the orthodox wing of American Presbyterianism and was the moderator of the General Assembly of 1891. He was also a chairman of the Old Testament committee of the Anglo-American Bible revision committee.

In 1858, he married Elizabeth Hayes (1831–1901). He died on February 10, 1900, in Princeton, New Jersey.