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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:SAMUEL (1774-1839) , See also:English classical See also:scholar and schoolmaster, and See also:bishop of See also:Lichfield, was See also:born at See also:Kenilworth on the 3oth of See also:January 1774. He was educated at See also:Rugby, and in 1792 went to St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge. Butler's classical career was a brilliant one. He obtained three of See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:- BROWNE
- BROWNE, EDWARD HAROLD (18,1–1891)
- BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS (1705-1760)
- BROWNE, JAMES (1793–1841)
- BROWNE, MAXIMILIAN ULYSSES, COUNT VON, BARON DE CAMUS AND MOUNTANY (1705-1757)
- BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735)
- BROWNE, ROBERT (1550-1633)
- BROWNE, SIR JAMES (1839–1896)
- BROWNE, SIR THOMAS (1605-1682)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591–1643)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM GEORGE (1768-1813)
Browne's medals, for the Latin (1792) and See also:Greek (1793, 1794) odes, the See also:medal for the Greek See also:ode in 1792 being won by Samuel See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor See also:Coleridge. In 1793 Butler was elected to the See also:Craven scholarship, amongst the competitors being John See also:Keate, after-wards headmaster of See also:Eton, and Coleridge. In 1796 he was See also:fourth See also:senior optime and senior See also:chancellor's classical medallist. In 1797 and 1798 he obtained the 'members' See also:prize for Latin See also:essay. He took the degree of B.A. in 1796, M.A. 1799, and D.D. 1811. In 1797 he was elected a See also:fellow of St John's, and in 1798 became headmaster of See also:Shrewsbury school. In 1802 he was presented to the living cf Kenilworth, in 1807 to a prebendal See also:- STALL (0. Eng. steall, stael, cf. Du. stal, Ger. and Swed. Stall, a common Teutonic word for a place, station, place for standing in; the root is the Indo-European std–, to stand, seen also in Latin stabulum, Greek vraO bs, and in stallion, an entire hors
stall in Lichfield See also:cathedral, and in 1822 to the archdeaconry of See also:Derby; all these appointments he held with his headmastership, but in t 836 he was promoted to the bishopric of Lichfield (and See also:Coventry,which was separated from his See also:diocese in the same See also:year). He died on the 4th of See also:December 1839. It is in connexion with Shrewsbury school that Butler will be chiefly remembered. During his headmastership its reputation greatly increased, and in the See also:standard of its scholarship it stood as high as any other public school in See also:England. His edition of See also:Aeschylus, with the See also:text and notes of See also:Stanley, appeared 18o9-1816, and was some-what severely criticized in the See also:Edinburgh See also:Review, but Butler was prevented by his See also:elevation to the episcopate from. revising it. He also wrote a See also:Sketch of See also:Modern and See also:Ancient See also:Geography (1813, frequently reprinted) for use in See also:schools, and brought out atlases of ancient and modern geography. His large library included a See also:fine collection of Aldine See also:editions and Greek and Latin See also:MSS.; the Aldines were sold by See also:auction, the MSS. See also:purchased by the See also:British Museum.
Butler's See also:life has been written by his See also:grandson, Samuel Butler, author of Erewhon (Life and Letters of Dr Samuel Butler, 1896); see also See also:Baker's See also:History of St John's College, Cambridge (ed. J. E. B. See also:Mayor, 1869) ; See also:Sandys, Hist. Class. Schol. (ed. 1908), vol. iii. p. 398.
End of Article: BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
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