Butler, Henry Montague

BUTLER, HENRY MONTAGUE: Master of Trinity College, Cambridge; b. at Gayton (4 m. n. of Towcester), Northampton, July 2, 1833. He was educated at Trinity College (B.A., 1855), and was ordained priest in 1859. He was fellow of his college in 1855–60, and was head master of Harrow School from 1859 to 1885. He was honorary chaplain to the queen in 1875–77 and chaplain in ordinary in 1877–85, as well as examining chaplain to archbishops Tait and Benson of Canterbury from 1879 to 1887. He was also prebendary of Holborn in St. Paul's Cathedral in 1882–85, dean of Gloucester in 1885–86, and vice-chancellor of Cambridge in 1889–91. Since 1886 he has been master of Trinity College, and honorary canon of Ely since 1898. He was select preacher at Oxford in 1877–78, 1878–80, 1882, and 1899, and at Cambridge in 1879, 1885, 1893, 1896–98, 1901, and 1903, while in 1871 he was created a commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy. He is also a governor of Haileybury College, Harrow School, Cheltenham College, Wellington College, and Westminster School, and has written: Sermons preached in the Chapel of Harrow School (2 vols., London, 1861–69); Belief in Christ and other Sermons preached in Trinity College (1898); "Lift up your Hearts": Words of Good Cheer for the Holy Communion (1898); University and other Sermons (1899); and Public School Sermons (1899).