Kersey, Suffolk

Coordinates: 52°03′00″N 0°55′01″E / 52.05°N 0.917°E / 52.05; 0.917

Kersey is a village and a civil parish in the Babergh district in Suffolk, in the east of England. The main street has a ford across a stream. Its principal claim to fame is that a coarse woollen cloth called Kersey cloth takes its name from it. The cloth was presumably originally made there, but later in many other places too.

The parish contains the village of Kersey and the hamlets of Kersey Tye, Kersey Upland, Wicker Street Green and William's Green.Kersey's church is St Mary's, and the village also contains a primary school.

The population of the village is about 350, measured at 359 at the 2011 Census.

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William Spotswood Green

William Spotswood Green (1847 – April 22, 1919) was an Irish naturalist, specialized on marine biology.

Born at Youghal and educated at Trinity College in Dublin, he was ordained a priest in 1873. Already before he left the services of the Church in 1890, he had worked on marine biology. In the 1880s, he participated as a leading member in several research expeditions sponsored by the Royal Irish Academy. In 1892, he became the Inspector of Fisheries. Combined with this work he was a Commissioner on the Congested Districts Board, where his intimate knowledge of human conditions in western Ireland was of great service. In 1914 he shook off the trammels of office, and retired to West Cove in Kerry. There he died five years later.

Green was also a member of the English Alpine Club and became a mountain climber well-known especially in Canada and New Zealand. In 1882, he attempted with two Swiss guides a first ascent of Mount Cook in New Zealand, but the party was forced back by bad weather shortly before they reached the top. In the late 1880s Green did survey work in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia.