Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler may refer to:

  • Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680), author of Hudibras
  • Samuel Butler (schoolmaster) (1774–1839), classical scholar, schoolmaster at Shrewsbury, Bishop of Lichfield
  • Samuel Butler (novelist) (1835–1902), grandson of the scholar, author of Erewhon
  • Samuel Butler (cricketer) (1850–1903), who in 1871 took all ten wickets in an innings for Oxford against Cambridge
  • Sam Butler, Australian Rules footballer

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    I made my song a coat
    Covered with embroideries
    Out of old mythologies
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)