Background
BUTCHER, Samuel Henry was born on April 16, 1850 in Dublin. Son of late Samuel Butcher. Bishop of Meath.
BUTCHER, Samuel Henry was born on April 16, 1850 in Dublin. Son of late Samuel Butcher. Bishop of Meath.
Marlborough; Trinity College, Cambridge. Senior Classic and Chancellor’s Medallist, 1873. Master of Arts, 1876.
Fellowship Trinity College, Cambridge, 1874. Vacating» this by marriage, 1876, elected, without examination, to a Fellowship at University College, Oxford. Lecturer there till 1882.
Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh, 1882-1903. Member of Scottish Universities Commission, 1889 - 96. Member of Royal Commission on University Education in Ireland, 1901.
Member of Royal Commission on Trinity College, Dublin, 1906. Fellow of British Academy of Letters, 1902. Lecturer at Harvard University, 1904.
Foreign memb. (lion.)American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1905. President of the British Academy of Letters, 1909. Honourable Doctor of Letters Cambridge, Dublin, and Manchester.
Honourable D. Litt. Oxford. Honourable Doctor of Laws St. Andrews, Glas. and Edinburgh. Honourable Fellow of University College Oxford.
Justice of the Peace Company Kerry. Member of Parliament (Unionist) Cambridge University since 1906; a Trustee of the British Museum.
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Unionist.
Clubs: Athenaeum; New Club, Edinburgh.