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His father was the Rev. Thomas Butler, Rector of Lang and his mother Fanny (née Worse). He went to Shrews bury School, where his grandfather, also called Samuel, former Bishop of Chesterfield and Coventry, had been headmaster before retiring. He then went up to his father's Alma mater, St John's College, Cambridge, in 1854, taking a First in Classics in 1858. The graduate society of St. John's is named the Samuel Butler Room (SIR) in his honor.
