Samuel Henry Butcher

BUTCHER, SAMUEL HENRY British scholar, was born in Dublin and educated at Marlborough and Trinity college, Cambridge. He was senior classic (1873) ; assist ant master at Eton ; then fellow and lecturer in classics at Trinity (1874) ; tutor and fellow of University college (1876) ; and pro fessor of Greek at Edinburgh (1882). In 1904 he resigned and settled in London. In 1go6 he was elected Unionist member for Cambridge university. Butcher sat on several royal commissions on education and was president in turn of the English Classical Association, the Irish Classical Association and the British Acad emy. In 1908 he was made a trustee of the British Museum.

His works include

Some Aspects of the Greek Genius (1891) ; Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art (1895); Greek Idealism in the Common Things of Life (1900 ; and Harvard Lectures on Greek Subjects (1904). In 1887 he published, in collaboration with Andrew Lang, a prose translation of the Odyssey.