George Butler (headmaster)

George Butler (5 July 1774 – 30 April 1853) was an English schoolmaster and divine, Headmaster of Harrow School from 1805 to 1829 and Dean of Peterborough from 1842 to his death in 1853.

Biography

The son of

• The Rev. Dr. George Butler (1819–1890), principal of Liverpool College (1866–1882) and canon of Winchester, whose wife, Josephine Butler, was a noted campaigner for the welfare of prostitutes
• Spencer Perceval Butler (1828–1915), lawyer and administrator, father of Sir Cyril Kendall Butler, Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler, Sir Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler and Sir George Geoffrey Gilbert Butler, and grandfather of the Conservative politician Richard Austen Butler
• The Rev. Arthur Gray Butler (1831–1909), Headmaster of Haileybury College and Dean of Oriel College, Oxford.^[2]
• The Rev. Dr.
  Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
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• Louisa Jane Butler (1822-1897), who in 1853 married the statistician, sociologist, anthropologist and eugenicist Francis Galton
• Emily Butler (born in or about 1829)
• Gertrude Maria Butler (born in or about 1835)

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Butler, George". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

External links

• Boase, George Clement (1886). "Butler, George (1774-1853)" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 8. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 49-50.