Hugh Carleton (1810 - 1890) was a New Zealandpolitician. He was a member of New Zealand's first, second, third, and fourth Parliaments, representing the Bay of Islands electorate. Due to the system of staggering used in the first general election, Carleton was actually the first MP ever elected in New Zealand. He had a strong interest in parliamentary procedure, and unsuccessfully lobbied for the position of Speaker. He is known for his unsuccessful campaign against the availability of alcoholic beverages at Bellamy's, the parliamentary restaurant. He was also a critic of the idea that all voting districts should contain the same number of voters, saying that this system gave "a preponderating control" of the political world to one specific class. He was described as "scholarly" by his allies and "pedantic" by his critics.
Sir HughCarleton Greene KCMG, OBE (1910-1987) was an English journalist and television executive.
He was the director-general of the BBC from 1960 to 1969, and is generally credited with modernising an organisation that had fallen behind in the wake of the launch of ITV in 1955.
The simple fact remains that one's opinion of Sir HughCarleton Greene can depend entirely on one's opinion of the social changes â" less deference to traditional authority and the traditional establishment â" that are most frequently associated with the 1960s.
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