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Samuel Butler was born on 4 December 1835, at Langar Rectory in Nottinghamshire. His father was the Reverend Thomas Butler, and his grandfather was Dr Samuel Butler (1744–1839), the revered Headmaster of Shrewsbury School who was made Bishop of Lichfield in 1836.

From an early age the young Samuel was expected to follow the family path into the Church. As recorded in his autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh, Butler’s upbringing was dominated by his father’s strict observance of Old Testament principles, and the harsh punishments that came with transgressing these. Butler always looked back on his childhood as a period of domestic confinement, oppression and misery.

Despite this unhappiness, Butler was a bright boy and had independently mastered both Latin and Greek grammars by age 13 when he joined Shrewsbury School. In 1854 he followed his father and grandfather to St John’s College, Cambridge. He enjoyed being away from his family and participated enthusiastically in College life, writing articles for the College magazine The Eagle and coxing the first boat of the

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Samuel Butler |Author |Born 1835 in UK

Mini biography from Queers in History

Samuel Butler was a rebellious and innovative writer whose works proved to be far ahead of their time. Educated at Cambridge to be a clergyman, he ran away to the south island of New Zealand, where he lived the life of a shepherd for five years. He then returned to England and tried his hand at writing. His first book, Erewhon, a political fantasy about a country where customs are the opposite of those typical of Western culture, was an immediate success and is widely read today. The Authoress of the Odyssey presents the gender-bending theory that Homer’s Odyssey was actually written by a woman. The Way of All Flesh, Butler’s final novel, is a stark depiction of middle-class English life.

By the mid-1870s, Butler had a companion, Henry Festing Jones (1851–1928), who gave up his law practice to devote himself to Butler. The two men traveled the world together, at one point “adopting” a Swiss boy named Hans. Jones later wrote a biograph

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Samuel Butler (novelist)

English novelist and critic (1835–1902)

Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh). Both novels have remained in print since their initial publication. In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that are still consulted.^[1]^[2]

Early life

Butler was born on 4 December 1835^[3] at the rectory in the village of Langar, Nottinghamshire. His father was Rev. Thomas Butler, son of Dr. Samuel Butler, then headmaster of Shrewsbury School and later Bishop of Lichfield.^[4] Dr. Butler was the son of a tradesman and descended from a line of yeomen, but his scholarly aptitude being recognised at a young age, he