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See also:- BUTLER
- BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
- BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
- BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
- BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
- BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
- BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
- BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
- BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
- BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
- BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)
BUTLER, See also:GEORGE (1774-1853) , See also:English schoolmaster and divine, was See also:born in See also:London and educated at See also:Sidney See also:Sussex See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he afterwards became See also:fellow, in the capacity first of mathematical lecturer, and afterwards of classical See also:tutor. He was elected a public examiner of the university in 1804, and in the following See also:year was one of the select preachers. As See also:head See also:master of See also:Harrow (1805-1829) his all-See also:round knowledge, his tact and his skill as an See also:athlete rendered his See also:administration successful and popular. On his retirement he settled down at Gayton, See also:Northamptonshire, a living which had been presented to him by his college in 1814. In 1836 he became See also:chancellor of the See also:diocese of See also:Peterborough, and in 1842 was appointed See also:dean of Peterborough. His few publications include some notes of Harrow, entitled Harrow, a Selection of Lists of the School between 1770 and 1828 (Peterborough, 1849).
His eldest son, GEORGE BUTLER (1819-1890), was See also:principal of See also:Liverpool College (1866-1882) and See also:canon of See also:Winchester. In 1852 he married See also:Josephine See also:Elizabeth, daughter of See also:John See also:Grey of Dilston. She died on the 3oth of See also:December 1906 (see her Autobiography, 1909). Mrs Josephine Butler, as she was commonly called afterwards, was a woman of intense moral and spiritual force, who devoted herself to See also:- RESCUE (in Middle Eng. rescous, from O. Fr. recousse, Low Lat. rescussa, from reexcussa,reexcutere, to shake off again, re, again, ex, off, quatere, to shake)
rescue See also:work, and specially to resisting the " See also:state regulation of See also:vice " whether by the C.D. Acts in See also:India or by any See also:system analogous to that of the See also:continent in See also:England.
His youngest son, the Rev. Dr See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY See also:MONTAGU BUTLER, became one of the best-known scholars of his See also:day. Born in 1833, and educated at Harrow and Trinity, Cambridge, he was See also:senior classic in 1855 and was elected a fellow of his college. In 1859 he became head master of Harrow, as his See also:father had been, and only resigned on being made dean of See also:Gloucester in 1885. In r886 he was elected master of Trinity, Cambridge. His publications include various volumes of sermons, but his reputation rests on his wide scholarship, his remarkable gifts as a public See also:speaker, and his See also:great See also:practical See also:influence both as a headmaster and at Cambridge. He married first (1861), Georgina Elliot, and secondly (1888) Agneta Frances See also:Ramsay (who in 1887 was senior classic at Cambridge), and had five sons and two daughters.
End of Article: BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
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