Education
Butler was born at Coton House, Churchover, Warwickshire and studied at Eton.
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Career
He is commemorated in the scientific specific name for the Omani owl, Strix butleri. He joined the army at the age of 21, and served in Gibraltar, India and South Africa. He retired in 1884 as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Irish Rifles.
Butler was a keen bird collector and taxidermist.
His collections were acquired by the Natural History Museum in part directly and also through the collections of Allan Octavian Hume, Lord Rothschild and others
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April 16, 1916 (aged 72)