Education
Butcher was educated at Cambridge University and rowed for Cambridge in the Boat Race in 1947.
Butcher was educated at Cambridge University and rowed for Cambridge in the Boat Race in 1947.
He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the coxless fours. Butcher recalled that at these post-war austerity Olympics, his kit was made by his mother from terry towelling.
He became a member of Thames Rowing Club.