Samuel Butcher (classicist)

Samuel Henry Butcher FRSE FBA (16 April 1850 – 29 December 1910) was an Anglo-Irish classical scholar.

Samuel Henry Butcher was born in Dublin to Samuel Butcher, Bishop of Meath. John Butcher, 1st Baron Danesfort was his younger brother. He became an eminent classical scholar and, in his final years, an English politician. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge between 1869 and 1873 where he was Senior Classic and Chancellor's medalist. 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 from 1882 to 1903 he became Professor of Greek at Edinburgh University. He was President of the British Academy, 1909-1910.

His many publications included, in collaboration with Andrew Lang, a prose translation of Homer's Odyssey which appeared in 1879.

Further information: English translations of Homer#Butcher

He was one of the two Members of Parliament for Cambridge University, between 1906 and his death, representing the Unionist Party.

He died in London on 29 December 1910, and was interred at the Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh.

External links

• Works by Samuel Henry Butcher at Project Gutenberg
• Archival material relating to Samuel Butcher (classicist) listed at the UK National Register of Archives
• Works by or about Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry) 1850-1910 in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb Sir John Eldon Gorst	Member of Parliament for Cambridge University 1906 – 1910 With: John Frederick Peel Rawlinson	Succeeded by Sir Joseph Larmor John Frederick Peel Rawlinson