OBITUARY.
MR. S, H. BUTCHER, M.P.
' By Telegraph.— Press Association.—Copyright. " London, December 30. The death occurred to-day of Mr. S. H. Butcher, M.P., representing Cambridge University. / . . „„.
Samuel Henry Butcher was born at Dublin in 1850, the son of a former Bishop of Meath, ..and was educated, at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was Senior Classic and Chancellor's Medallist at his university, and obtained a fellowship of Trinity in 1874. He was lecturer at .his college for several years, and later was elected a fellow of university . college, Oxford, without examination. Since 1906 he - had represented Cambridge University as a Unionist member. Mr. Butcher was a distinguished man of letters and a recognised authority on Greek literature and the Irish agrarian problem. In conjunction with Mr. Andrew Lang,' he was responsible for a prose translation of the "Odyssey,'' and wrote several volumes upon classical literature. ' He was president of the British Academy of Letters in 1909.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14567, 2 January 1911, Page 5
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