History Of The Frog & Orange

In 1820, the house was occupied by Filmer Larkins, farmer and son of Jacob.  He, with the consent of the estate and two justices at Sandwich, was granted a licence to sell ales from the premises, which at the hearing he registered as The Green Man.  The licence stated that: 'The ales sold or issued shall not be adulterated or impured upon, or issued from pots of illegal measure and shall not be consumed between the hours of divine service.  The course of gaming shall not be permitted within the premises, nor shall there be drunkenness; and thieves shall not be harboured within the premises.'  And so, having given two sureties of his good character to uphold the terms of his licence, Filmer Larkins opened the doors of the house and sold ale from it for the first time.  In 1826 he was granted a full licence, and The Green Man became a registered tavern. 

The Green Man at this date was in the possession of Sophia Russell, daughter of George Cousemaker, and her husband John who was a captain in the Royal Navy.  They held the estate, along with the most noble Henry Charles, Duke of Beaufort, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and Francis Russell, the Marquis of Tavistock.  Though from this point other heirs and co-heirs became entitled to parts of the estate, and there followed lengthy arguments at law, which culminated in 1830 when Sophia Russell, then the Baroness de Clifford, petitioned Parliament; an act was passed amending the laws respecting conveyances and surrender of estates and funds vested in trustees and mortgages.  Among those heirs were the family of Dyneley who had been granted the estate by Henry VIII, in 1530.

In 1841 Sophia Baroness de Clifford, the noble Francis, Duke of Bedford and Robert Hale Blagden Hale sold the Green Man 'with its land and all appurtenaces' to John Dadds Esq. Of Wingham.  However, he in the same year accepted the promisary note of  George Collard , victualler of Staple, for the sum of �450 for the Green Man, that it became payable over a period of time with interest. (Certain amounts of which remain unpaid to this day).  George Collard kept the house until his death in 1863, whereupon his widow Clara sold it to the Gardner Godden Brewery of Ash-Next-Sandwich.  The first tenanted keeper of the Green Man was Thomas Wyborn, a market Gardner, who during his time there carried on that business as well as the day to day running of the house, as did others that followed him.  In 1951 the Gardner Brewery merged with Thompson & Wotton of Ramsgate, to form Combined Brewery Holdings, which in 1955 was taken over by the Whitbread Brewery. They in 1972 sold it as a Free House.

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