Walter Butler

Walter Butler may refer to:

  • Walter Butler, 11th Earl of Ormond (1569–1632/3), British Army officer
  • Walter Butler, 16th Earl of Ormonde (1703–1783)
  • Walter Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde (1770–1820), Irish peer and politician
  • Walter Butler (French businessman), French/American businessman, head of Butler Capital Partners
  • Walter Butler (Loyalist) (1752–1781), Loyalist during the American Revolution, son of John Butler
  • Walter Halben Butler (1852–1931), U.S. Representative from Iowa
  • Walter Butler (Australian politician) (1892–1937), New South Wales Legislative Assembly member for Hurstville
  • Walter Butler (architect) (1860–1949), Australian architect
  • Walter Butler Cheadle (1836–1910), English paediatrician
  • Walter Butler Wilkinson (1781–1807), Canadian political figure
  • Garth Butler (born Walter Garth Butler, 1923–1995), English footballer
  • W. E. Butler (1898–1978), occultist and esoteric author in Britain
  • Walter S. Butler (1823–1913), political figure in New Brunswick

Famous quotes containing the words walter and/or butler:

    “With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespear when I measure my mind against his.... But I am bound to add that I pity the man who cannot enjoy Shakespear. He has outlasted thousands of abler thinkers, and will outlast a thousand more.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “Irrational streams of blood are staining earth;
    Empedocles has thrown all things about;
    Hector is dead and there’s a light in Troy;
    We that look on but laugh in tragic joy.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)