The Reverend Fred Pratt Green MBE was a British Methodist minister and hymnodist.
Born in Roby, Lancashire, England, he began his ministry in the Filey circuit. He was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1928 and served circuits in the north and south of England until 1969. During his career as a minister he wrote numerous plays and hymns. It was not until he retired, however, that he began writing prolifically.
His hymns reflect his rejection of fundamentalism and show his concern with social issues. They include many that were written to supply obvious liturgical needs of the modern church, speaking to topics or appropriate for events for which there were few traditional hymns available. Green also wrote poetry: his poem The Old Couple was included by Philip Larkin in 'The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse'. He died on 22 October 2000. His obituary in The Times of 24 October 2000 quoted him as saying of hymn singing,
"It’s such a dangerous activity … you get this glow which you can mistake for religious experience".