Brian Danvers Butler (18 April 1876 – 18 August 1916) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
The son of the Earl of Lanesborough and his wife, Anne Elizabeth Clarke, he was born in April 1876 at Swithland Hall in Leicestershire.
[2] He later moved to East Grinstead in Sussex, where he was a popular figure who played for East Grinstead Cricket Club, in addition to being a keen golfer.
[4] Butler served in the British Army during the First World War, being commissioned as a second lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps in April 1915.
[6] Butler fought on the Western Front and was killed in action during the Battle of the Somme on 18 August 1916.