My brother Stephen Green has died aged 56 of a heart attack while taking part in the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 cycle ride. Whenever he cycled it was for a charity; his sudden death has prompted many more donations for the children’s charity Action for A-T than he had already raised through sponsorship.
Stephen was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, the youngest son of Alan Green, a secondary school headteacher, and his wife, Betty, a hairdresser. He was educated at Bishop Wordsworth’s boys’ grammar school in the city, from where he went to Reading University, obtaining an honours degree in geography. Having studied French at school, he became fluent in the language during a gap year spent working at a hotel near Chartres. Later he worked at the ski resort of Méribel.
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