Samuel Butcher (classicist)

Samuel Henry Butcher DCL LLD FRSE FBA[1] (/ˈbʊtʃər/; 16 April 1850 – 29 December 1910) was an Anglo-Irish classical scholar and politician.

[3] Elected fellow of Trinity in 1874, he left the college on his marriage, in 1876, to the daughter of Archbishop Trench.

He died in London on 29 December 1910, and his body was returned to Scotland and interred at the Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh[1] with his wife, Rose Julia Butcher (1840-1902).

His grave has a pale granite Celtic cross and is located near the northern path of the north section in the original cemetery.

His many publications included, in collaboration with Andrew Lang, a prose translation of Homer's Odyssey which appeared in 1879 and the OCT edition of Demosthenes, Orationes, vol.