Richard William Butler was a British dramatist and editor of The Referee

Sunday Referee

The Sunday Referee was a Sunday newspaper in the United Kingdom.The paper was founded in 1877 as The Referee, primarily covering sports news...

magazine in the late Victorian period.

He shared a joint pen name, Richard Henry

Richard Henry (pseudonym)

Richard Henry is a pseudonym credited on collaborative works of authors Richard Butler and Henry Chance Newton.Works attributed to Richard Henry include Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim, a parody of the Mary Shelly novel Frankenstein, presented at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in 1887.-Selected...

, with Henry Chance Newton

Henry Chance Newton

Henry Chance Newton was a British author and theatre critic for The Referee magazine.Newton, in conjunction with Richard Butler, wrote libretti for musical comedy under the joint collaborative name of Richard Henry...

. Works attributed to Richard Henry include Monte Cristo, Jr (burlesque melodrama 1886); Jubilation (musical mixture 1887); Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim

Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim

Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim is a musical burlesque written by Richard Henry . The music was composed by Meyer Lutz...

, a parody of the Mary Shelly novel Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a failed experiment that produced a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first...

, presented at the Gaiety Theatre, London

Gaiety Theatre, London

The Gaiety Theatre, London was a West End theatre in London, located on Aldwych at the eastern end of the Strand. The theatre was established as the Strand Musick Hall , in 1864 on the former site of the Lyceum Theatre. It was rebuilt several times, but closed from the beginning of World War II...

, in 1887; and Opposition (a debate in one sitting 1892).