Edward Arthur Butler

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Arthur Butler (4 July 1843 – 16 April 1916) was an English ornithologist and British Army officer.

He joined the army at the age of 21, and served in Gibraltar, India and South Africa with the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot.

[1] His son Arthur Lennox Butler was also an ornithologist, and had four species of reptiles named in his honor, including the Australian venomous snake, Chilorhinophis butleri.

[3] Butler was found dead in his garden at Winsford Hall Stokesby nr Great Yarmouth 16 April 1916.

A coroners court held at Winsford Hall returned a verdict of “Suicide during temporary insanity”, Butler was 72 years old.