Samuel Butler: a sketch

Samuel Butler: A Sketch, by Henry Festing Jones
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Title: Samuel Butler: A Sketch
Author: Henry Festing Jones
Release Date: May 1, 2007 Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1921 Jonathan Cape edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
SAMUEL BUTLER: A Sketch, by Henry Festing Jones
Author of Samuel Butler : A Memoir Jonathan Cape Eleven Gower Street London First published in “The Humour of Homer & Other Essays ” by Samuel Butler 1913. Reissued by Jonathan Cape 1921
Samuel Butler: A Sketch
Samuel Butler was born on the 4th December, 1835, at the Rectory, Langar, near Bingham, in Nottinghamshire. His father was the Rev. Thomas Butler, then Rector of Langar, afterwards one of the canons of Lincoln Cathedral, and his mother was Fanny Worsley, daughter of John Philip Worsley of Arno’s Vale, Bristol, sugar-refiner. His grandfather was Dr. Samuel Butler, the famous headmaster of Shrewsbury School, afterwards Bishop of Lichfield. The Butlers are not related either to the author of Hudibras, or to ...