Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

:For the 17th-century author of Hudibras, see Samuel Butler (1612-1680).

Early life

He was born in Langar Rectory, near Bingham, Nottinghamshire, England, into a long line of clerics, preordained as it were to a career in church in his father's wish and expectation. He went to Shrewsbury School, where his grandfather, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, had been headmaster before retiring. He then went up to his father's alma mater, St John's College, Cambridge, in 1854, collecting a First in Classics in 1858. The graduate society of St. John's is named the Samuel Butler Room (SBR) in his honour.

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Langar Rectory - Bingham - Nottinghamshire - England - Clerics - Church - Shrewsbury School - Bishop - Lichfield - Coventry - Alma mater - St John's College, Cambridge - 1854 - First - Classics - 1858

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