assistant master at the school under Dr.  Butler.  He married in 1832
and left 1 Shrewsbury for Langar.  He was a learned botanist, and
made a collection of dried plants which he gave to the Town Museum of
Shrewsbury. 

Butler's childhood and early life were spent at Langar among the
surroundings of an English country rectory, and his education was
begun by his father.  In 1843, when he was only eight years old, the
first great event in his life occurred; the family, consisting of his
father and mother, his two sisters, his brother and himself, went to
Italy.  The South-Eastern Railway stopped at Ashford, whence they
travelled to Dover in their own carriage; the carnage was put on
board the steamboat, they crossed the Channel, and proceeded to
Cologne, up the Rhine to Basle and on through Switzerland into Italy,
through Parma, where Napoleon's widow was still reigning, Modena,
Bologna, Florence, and so to Rome.  They had to drive where there was
no railway, and there was then none in all Italy except between
Naples and Castellamare.  They seemed to pass a fresh custom-house
every day, but, by tipping the searchers, generally got through
without inconvenience.  The bread was sour and the Italian butter