Samuel Butler (actor)
Samuel Butler may refer to: *Samuel Butler (poet) (1613–1680), English poet and satirist *Samuel Butler (schoolmaster) (1774–1839), English classical scholar * Samuel Butler (politician) (1825–1891), American politician * Samuel Butler (novelist) (1835–1902), English author of ''Erewhon'' *Samuel Butler (cricketer) (1850–1903), English cricketer *Sam Butler (born 1986), Australian rules footballer * Sam Butler (footballer, born 2003), Australian rules footballer *Bo Weavil Jackson Bo Weavil Jackson (dates and places of birth and death unknown) was an American blues singer and guitarist. He was one of the first country bluesmen to be recorded, in 1926, for Paramount Records and Vocalion Records. On the latter label he was ...

Samuel Butler (poet)
Samuel Butler (baptized 14 February 1613 – 25 September 1680) was an English poet and satirist. He is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical poem titled ''Hudibras''. Biography Samuel Butler was born in Strensham, Worcestershire, and was the son of a farmer and churchwarden, also named Samuel. His date of birth is unknown, but there is documentary evidence for the date of his baptism of 14 February. The date of Butler's baptism is given as 8 February by Treadway Russell Nash in his 1793 edition of ''Hudibras''. Nash had already mentioned Butler in his ''Collections for a History of Worcestershire'' (1781), and perhaps because the latter date seemed to be a revised account, it has been repeated by many writers and editors. However, The parish register of Strensham records under the year 1612: "Item was christened Samuell Butler the sonne of Samuell Butler the xiiijth of February anno ut supra". Lady Day, 25 March, was New Year's Day in England at the time, so the year o ...
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Samuel Butler (schoolmaster)
Samuel Butler FRS (30 January 1774 – 4 December 1839) was an English classical scholar and schoolmaster of Shrewsbury School, and Bishop of Lichfield. His grandson was Samuel Butler (1835–1902), the notable author of the novel ''Erewhon''. Life Butler was born at Kenilworth, Warwickshire. He was educated at Rugby School, and in 1791 was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge. He obtained three of Sir William Browne's medals, for the Latin (1792) and Greek (1793, 1794) odes, the medal for the Greek ode in 1792 being won by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In 1793 Butler was elected to the Craven scholarship, amongst the competitors being John Keate, afterwards headmaster of Eton, and Coleridge. In 1796 he was fourth senior optime and senior chancellor's classical medallist. In 1797 and 1798 he obtained the members prize for Latin essay. He acquired the degrees of BA in 1796, MA in 1799, and DD in 1811. In 1797 he was elected a fellow of St John's and ordained deacon in the Church ...
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Samuel Butler (politician)
Samuel Butler (February 2, 1825 – February 1, 1891) was an American politician who served as Pennsylvania State Treasurer from 1880 to 1882. A member of the Republican Party from Chester County, Butler previously served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1877 to 1880. He unsuccessfully sought his party's gubernatorial nomination in 1882. Life and career Butler was born in Upper Uwchlan Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, to farmer-parents James and Mary Butler. He attended the local public school and went on to attend Unionville Academy in neighboring East Marlborough Township, where he studied under Jonathan Grause, a well-known teacher who had instructed Bayard Taylor and other local luminaries. After graduation, he spent eight years teaching school in Chester as well as Berks and Butler counties. In 1849, he returned home to Upper Uwchlan, married, and settled down on the family farm, where he remained for the rest of his life save for his service in ...
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Samuel Butler (novelist)
Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel ''Erewhon'' (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel ''Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh'', published posthumously in 1903 in an altered version titled ''The Way of All Flesh'', and published in 1964 as he wrote it. Both novels have remained in print since their initial publication. In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and made prose translations of the ''Iliad'' and ''Odyssey'' that are still consulted. Early life Butler was born on 4 December 1835 at the rectory in the village of Langar, Nottinghamshire. His father was Rev. Thomas Butler, son of Dr. Samuel Butler, then headmaster of Shrewsbury School and later Bishop of Lichfield. Dr. Butler was the son of a tradesman and descended from a line of yeomen, but his scholarly aptitude being recognised at a young age, he had been sent to Rugby ...
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Samuel Butler (cricketer)
Samuel Evan Butler (15 April 1850 – 30 April 1903) was an English cricketer who attended St Alban Hall and Brasenose College, Oxford. In the University Match of 1871 he took all ten Cambridge University wickets in their first innings, the only time this has been achieved in the fixture, and (as of March 2013) the only time an Oxford bowler has taken ten wickets in any first-class innings. Life He was born at Colombo in British Ceylon, the eldest son of Samuel Butler, who bought Combe Hay Manor in 1864. He was educated at Eton College, where he was in the cricket XI. He matriculated in 1869 at St Alban Hall, Oxford, and graduated B.A. in 1875 at Brasenose College. He graduated M.A. in 1876 and the same year was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. Butler resided at Caisson House near Combe Hay Manor, and from around 1881 had a fuller's earth mine nearby. He married in 1884 Florence Grosvenor, third daughter of the Rev. Frederick Grosvenor, rector of Dunkerton, Somerset. ...
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Sam Butler
Samuel Butler (born 14 January 1986) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). A talented underage soccer player from Gawler, South Australia, who only took up football as a teenager, he was drafted by West Coast with the 20th pick at the 2003 National Draft, having played in a SANFL reserves premiership for Central District the year he was drafted. Butler debuted for West Coast during the 2004 season, and was nominated for the AFL Rising Star award. A mid-sized defender and occasional midfielder, he played in West Coast's 2006 premiership team, but missed the entire next season due to injury. Butler has struggled with injury throughout his career, only playing his 100th game during the 2013 season, ten seasons after his debut. Career From Gawler in country South Australia, Butler only took up football when he was a teenager, having previously played under-16 soccer for his state. ...
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Sam Butler (footballer, Born 2003)
Sam Butler is a professional Australian Rules Football player who plays for Hawthorn Football Club as a midfielder or forward in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is the younger brother of player Dan Butler. Early life and junior football In 2017, Sam watched his brother Dan win the AFL Grand Final as a 14 year old, and has had work experience at and . Sam Butler played junior football for the Lake Wendouree Football Club and St Patricks College, Ballarat. At Lake Wendouree FC, (according to GameDay) he kicked 46 (documented) goals. He then played for the Greater Western Victoria Rebels in the NAB League, where he made a name for himself to be a 'clean and clever utility who can play through the midfield or up forward'. In the NAB League, he was ranked first out of all mid-forwards for tackles, contested possessions, and goals. At the Vic Country Draft Combine, he put AFL clubs on notice when he recorded the quickest 20m sprint time (2.97 seconds) and came second in t ...
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