Butcher, Samuel Henry (1850–1910)

Irish classical scholar. He collaborated with Andrew Lang in a translation into English prose of Homer's Odyssey (1879). His works include Some Aspects of the Greek Genius (1891) and Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art (1895).

He was born in Dublin, studied at Cambridge, and in 1882 became professor of Greek at Edinburgh, resigning in 1903. He was a Unionist member of Parliament for Cambridge University from 1906 until his death.