Butcher, Samuel Henry (1850-1910)
Butcher, Samuel Henry (1850-1910)
Distinguished classical scholar and professor of Greek at University of Edinburgh (1882-1903). He was born April 16, 1850, in Dublin, Ireland, and studied at Marlborough College, and Trinity College, Cambridge (senior classic and chancellors medalist, 1873; M.A. 1876). He was a member of parliament for Cambridge University (1906) and an honorary fellow of University College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Butcher was not himself involved in psychic research but was a close friend of some of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research, London. After his death he was claimed to be a leading "communicator" in a famous cross correspondence experiment. He died December 29, 1910.
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