Samuel Butcher (classicist)
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Samuel Henry Butcher DCL LLD FRSE FBA[1] (/ˈbʊtʃər/; 16 April 1850 – 29 December 1910) was an Anglo-Irish classical scholar and politician.
Life
[edit]Samuel Henry Butcher was born in Dublin to Samuel Butcher, Bishop of Meath and Mary Leahy.
He was educated at Marlborough College in Wiltshire[2] and then received a place at Trinity College, Cambridge, attending between 1869 and 1873 where he was Senior Classic and Chancellor's medalist.[3] Elected fellow of Trinity in 1874, he left the college on his marriage, in 1876, to the daughter of Archbishop Trench. From 1876 to 1882 he was a fellow of University College, Oxford, and tutored there.[2][4] From 1882 to 1903 he was Professor of Greek at the University of Edinburgh succeeding Prof John Stuart Blackie. During this period he lived at 27 Palmerston Place in Edinburgh's West End.[5] He was succeeded at the University of Edinburgh by Prof Alexander William Mair.[6]
He was one of the two Members of Parliament for Cambridge University, between 1906 and his death, representing the Conservative Party.
He was President of the British Academy, 1909–1910.
He died in London on 29 December 1910, and his body was returned to Scotland and interred at the Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh[1] with his wife, Rose Julia Butcher (1840-1902). His grave has a pale granite Celtic cross and is located near the northern path of the north section in the original cemetery.
Family
[edit]John Butcher, 1st Baron Danesfort was his younger brother.
He married Rose Julia Trench (1840-1902) in 1876. They had no children.
Publications
[edit]His many publications included, in collaboration with Andrew Lang, a prose translation of Homer's Odyssey which appeared in 1879 and the OCT edition of Demosthenes, Orationes, vol. I (Or. 1–19, Oxford, 1903), II.i (Or. 20–26, Oxford, 1907).
References
[edit]- ^ a b Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index (PDF). Vol. I. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 April 2012. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
- ^ a b C D Waterston; A Macmillan Shearer (July 2006). Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J) (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 090219884X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
- ^ "Butcher, Samuel Henry (BTCR869SH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1900
- ^ "Greek - Our History". ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
External links
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Works related to Samuel Butcher at Wikisource- Works by Samuel Butcher at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Samuel Butcher at the Internet Archive
- "Archival material relating to Samuel Butcher". UK National Archives.
- 1850 births
- 1910 deaths
- Politicians from Dublin (city)
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Academics of the University of Edinburgh
- Burials at the Dean Cemetery
- Butcher family (Anglo-Irish)
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Scholars of Greek language
- English classical scholars
- Irish classical scholars
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the University of Cambridge
- UK MPs 1906–1910
- UK MPs 1910
- UK MPs 1910–1918
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Irish people of English descent
- People educated at Marlborough College
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Irish translators
- English translators
- Presidents of the British Academy
- Classical scholars of the University of Cambridge
- Classical scholars of the University of Oxford
- Classical scholars of the University of Edinburgh
- 20th-century British translators
- 19th-century British translators
- Translators of Homer
- Writers from Dublin (city)