Samuel Butler, FRS, was an English classical scholar and schoolmaster at Shrewsbury, and Bishop of Lichfield. His grandson was Samuel Butler, noted author. He was born at Kenilworth. He was educated at Rugby School, and in 1791 was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge. Butler's classical career was a brilliant one. He obtained three of Sir William Browne's medals, for the Latin (1792) and Greek (1793, 1794) odes, the medal for the Greek ode in 1792 being won by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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  • Samuel Butler, FRS, was an English classical scholar and schoolmaster at Shrewsbury, and Bishop of Lichfield. His grandson was Samuel Butler, noted author. He was born at Kenilworth. He was educated at Rugby School, and in 1791 was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge. Butler's classical career was a brilliant one. He obtained three of Sir William Browne's medals, for the Latin (1792) and Greek (1793, 1794) odes, the medal for the Greek ode in 1792 being won by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In 1793 Butler was elected to the Craven scholarship, amongst the competitors being John Keate, afterwards headmaster of Eton, and Coleridge. In 1796 he was fourth senior optime and senior chancellors classical medallist. In 1797 and 1798 he obtained the members prize for Latin essay. He took the degree of BA in 1796, MA 1799, and DD 1811. In 1797 he was elected a fellow of St John's, and in 1798 became headmaster of Shrewsbury school. In 1802 he was presented to the living of Kenilworth, in 1807 to a prebendal stall in Lichfield Cathedral, and in 1822 to the archdeaconry of Derby; all these appointments he held with his headmastership, but in 1836 he was promoted to the bishopric of Lichfield (and Coventry, which was separated from his diocese in the same year). It is in connection with Shrewsbury school that Butler will be chiefly remembered. During his headmastership its reputation greatly increased, and in the standard of its scholarship it stood as high as any other public school in England. His edition of Aeschylus, with the text and notes of Stanley, appeared 1809-1816, and was somewhat severely criticized in the Edinburgh Review, but Butler was prevented by his elevation to the episcopate from revising it. He also wrote a Sketch of Modern and Ancient Geography (1813, frequently reprinted) for use in schools, and brought out atlases of ancient and modern geography. His large library included a fine collection of Aldine editions and Greek and Latin manuscripts; the Aldines were sold by auction, the manuscripts purchased by the British Museum. Bishop Butler is buried in the church yard of the Collegiate Church of St Mary the Virgin Shrewsbury - the former parish church of Shrewsbury School. Butler's life has been written by his grandson Samuel Butler, author of Erewhon (Life and Letters of Dr Samuel Butler, 1896); see also Baker's History of St John's College, Cambridge; Sandys, Hist. Class. Schol. (ed. 1908), vol. iii. p. 398. Butler collected some Greek manuscripts.
  • Samuel Butler war ein englischer Gelehrter. Er wirkte in Shrewsbury als Lehrer und war Bischof von Lichfield. Sein Enkel, der Philosoph und Schriftsteller Samuel Butler (1835–1902), schrieb eine Biografie über ihn.
  • Samuel Butler (30. tammikuuta 1744- 4. joulukuuta 1839) oli englantilainen klassinen kirjailija, Shrewsbury schoolin rehtori ja Lichfieldin piispa. Hänen lapsenlapsensa oli myös nimeltään Samuel Butler. Butler syntyi Kenilworthissä, noin 10 kilometriä etelään Coventrysta ja 145 kilometriä Lontoosta luoteeseen. Hän kävi koulunsa Rugby Schoolissa ja vuonna 1792 hän aloitti opiskelut Cambridgen St. John's Collegessa. Opiskeluaikanaan hän voitti palkintoja sekä latinan- että kreikankielisillä oodeillaan. Hän suoritti Bachelor of Artin tutkintonsa 1796, Master of Artin tutkinnon 1799 ja teologian tohtorin arvon hän sai vuonna 1811. Vuonna 1798 hänestä tuli Shrewsbury schoolin rehtori. Butlerin kirkollinen ura alkoi vuonna 1802 ja hän eteni tällä uralla nopeasti: jo vuonna 1822 hänet nimitettiin Derbyn arkkidiakonin virkaan. Tähän saakka hän hoiti kirkollisia virkoja rehtorin virkansa ohella, mutta vuonna 1836 häänet nimitettiin Lichfieldin (ja hiippakunnasta samana vuonna erotetun Coventryn) piispaksi. Butler tunnetaan ehkä parhaiten yhteydestään Shrewsbury schooliin. Hänen rehtoriaikanaan koulun maine parani suuresti ja opetusmetodeissaan se oli yhtä hyvä kuin mikä tahansa muu yksityiskoulu engl. public school. Hän kirjoitti useita kirjoja ja oppikirjoja. Butlerilla oli laaja kirjasto, johon kuului arvokkaita aldiinilaispainoksia engl. Aldine editions ja manuskripteja. Aldiinilaispainokset huutokaupattiin myöhemmin ja manuskriptit osti British Museum. Piispa Butler on haudattu Shrewsbury Schoolin entisen seurakuntakirkon Collegiate Church of St Mary the Virgin Shrewsbury'n hautausmaalle. Hänen elämäkertansa on kirjoittanut hänen lapsenlapsensa Samuel Butler.
  • Samuel Butler était un homme d'Église et érudit britannique. Il fut évêque de Lichfield en 1836, puis évêque de Coventry. Bibliophile, il réunit une importante bibliothèque, dont un nombre important d'ouvrages précieux ont ultérieurement été acquis par la Bodleian Library d'Oxford. Par ailleurs, Samuel Butler était féru de géographie, ancienne et moderne, et publia par exemple un [An] Atlas of ancient geography en 22 planches, réédité en 1841 par Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphie. Samuel Butler était le grand-père d'un autre Samuel Butler (1835-1902), qu'il eut à peine le temps de connaître, et qui devint écrivain : on lui doit notamment Erewhon, ou De l'autre côté des montagnes (1872), roman satirique, mais aussi une biographie « contextualisée » de son grand-père, publiée en 1896 : The Life and letters of Dr. Samuel Butler, headmaster of Shrewsbury school 1798-1836... in so far as they illustrate the scholastic, religious and social life of England, 1790-1840, by his grandson Samuel Butler.
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  • Samuel Butler, FRS, was an English classical scholar and schoolmaster at Shrewsbury, and Bishop of Lichfield. His grandson was Samuel Butler, noted author. He was born at Kenilworth. He was educated at Rugby School, and in 1791 was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge. Butler's classical career was a brilliant one. He obtained three of Sir William Browne's medals, for the Latin (1792) and Greek (1793, 1794) odes, the medal for the Greek ode in 1792 being won by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
  • Samuel Butler war ein englischer Gelehrter. Er wirkte in Shrewsbury als Lehrer und war Bischof von Lichfield. Sein Enkel, der Philosoph und Schriftsteller Samuel Butler (1835–1902), schrieb eine Biografie über ihn.
  • Samuel Butler (30. tammikuuta 1744- 4. joulukuuta 1839) oli englantilainen klassinen kirjailija, Shrewsbury schoolin rehtori ja Lichfieldin piispa. Hänen lapsenlapsensa oli myös nimeltään Samuel Butler. Butler syntyi Kenilworthissä, noin 10 kilometriä etelään Coventrysta ja 145 kilometriä Lontoosta luoteeseen. Hän kävi koulunsa Rugby Schoolissa ja vuonna 1792 hän aloitti opiskelut Cambridgen St. John's Collegessa.
  • Samuel Butler était un homme d'Église et érudit britannique. Il fut évêque de Lichfield en 1836, puis évêque de Coventry. Bibliophile, il réunit une importante bibliothèque, dont un nombre important d'ouvrages précieux ont ultérieurement été acquis par la Bodleian Library d'Oxford.
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