Samuel Butcher PC (9 October 1811 – 29 July 1876) was an Irish Anglican bishop in the Church of Ireland in the 19th century.
He graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1829[3] and joined the clergy of the Church of Ireland.
In 1866 Butcher became Bishop of Meath,[4] and was subsequently made a member of the Privy Council of Ireland.
Butcher caused controversy in Anglo-Irish society when he committed suicide on 29 July 1876.
[5][6] The inquest into his death decided that this was the result of a temporary insanity brought on by fever.