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GEORGE BUTLER (1774-1853)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 882 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:BUTLER (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, See also:GEORGE See also: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 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 .

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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 .

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