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Samuel Butler



 
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  • Samuel Butler (poet)
    Samuel Butler (poet)

    Samuel Butler was a poet and satirist. Born in Strensham, Worcestershire and baptised 14 February, 1613, he is remembered now chiefly for a long satire Burlesque poem on Puritanism entitled Hudibras....
     (1612–1680), author of Hudibras
  • Samuel Butler (schoolmaster)
    Samuel Butler (schoolmaster)

    Samuel Butler, Royal Society , was an England classical scholar and schoolmaster at Shrewsbury School, and Bishop of Lichfield. His grandson was Samuel Butler , noted author....
     (1774–1839), classical scholar, schoolmaster at Shrewsbury, Bishop of Lichfield
  • Samuel Butler (novelist)
    Samuel Butler (novelist)

    Samuel Butler was an iconoclastic Victorian era author who published a variety of works, including the Utopian satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh , his two best-known works, but also extending to examinations of Christianity orthodoxy, substantive studies of history of evolutionary thought, studies of Italia...
     (1835–1902), grandson of the scholar, author of Erewhon
  • Samuel Butler (cricketer)
    Samuel Butler (cricketer)

    Samuel Evan Butler was an England cricketer. In the University Match of 1871 he took all ten Cambridge University Cricket Club wickets in their first innings, the only time this has been achieved in the fixture....
     (1850–1903), who in 1871 took all ten wickets in an innings for Oxford against Cambridge
  • Sam Butler
    Sam Butler

    Sam Butler is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. He is a member of the West Coast Eagles team who won the 2006 AFL Premiership....
    , Australian Rules footballer