George Butler

Butler, known for being head master of Harrow and dean of Peterborough, was born in Pimlico in 1774. He was educated in his father’s school, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, and then became a foundation scholar of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he was senior wrangler and senior Smith’s prizeman, January 1794, graduated B.A. in the same year, took his M.A. 1797, and his B.D. and D.D. in 1804 and 1805. His college elected him a fellow, and for some years he acted as mathematical lecturer, and then as classical tutor. It was also probably during this period that he commenced keeping his terms at Lincoln’s Inn. Between 1805 and 1829, he was the head-master of Harrow School. He had been he was presented by his college to the rectory of Gayton in 1814, and after his retirement from Harrow he dedicated himself to his parish priest duties.