Samuel Butcher PC

Privy Council of Ireland

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 (9 October 1811 – 29 July 1876) was an Irish Anglican bishop

Bishop

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 in the Church of Ireland

Church of Ireland

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 in the 19th century.

Butcher was the son of Samuel Butler, a distinguished naval commander. He was Professor

Professor

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 of Divinity

Divinity (academic discipline)

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 at Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin

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 from 1852 to 1866 when he became Bishop of Meath

Bishop of Meath

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. He committed suicide, the inquest deciding this was as the result of temporary insanity brought on by fever.

Works

The Ecclesiastical Calendar: Its theory and construction, Dublin: 1877. Edited and published posthumously by his sons Samuel Henry Butcher

Samuel Henry Butcher

Samuel Henry Butcher was an Anglo-Irish classical scholar.Samuel Henry Butcher was born in Dublin to Samuel Butcher, Bishop of Meath. John Butcher, 1st Baron Danesfort was his younger brother. He became an eminent classical scholar and, in his final years, an English politician...

 and John George Butcher

John Butcher, 1st Baron Danesfort

John George Butcher, 1st Baron Danesfort QC , known as Sir John Butcher, Bt, between 1918 and 1924, was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician.-Background and education:...

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