Books by Butler Samuel.

Butler Samuel (1774-1839)

Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. Was admitted to Rugby 31 March 1783, and entered St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1792. At Cambridge his career was singularly brilliant. He obtained three of Sir William Browne's medals, and in 1793 was elected Craven scholar in competition with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Keate, afterwards head-master of Eton, and Christopher Bethell, afterwards bishop of Bangor. He carried off the chancellor's medals in 1797, and the member's prizes for 1797 and 1798. He became fellow of St. John's 4 April 1797, and in 1798 was appointed head-master of Shrewsbury School. He held this appointment for thirty-eight years.

Butler was the author of many educational works, the chief of which are:

1. An elaborate edition of ‘Æschylus,’ published at the Cambridge University Press in four volumes between 1809 and 1826.

2. ‘A Sketch of Modern and Ancient Geography,’ Shrewsbury, 1813 (and frequently reprinted).

3. ‘An Atlas of Ancient Geography.’

4. ‘An Atlas of Modern Geography.’

He was also the editor of ‘M. Musuri Carmen in Platonem, Is. Casauboni in Josephum Scaligerum Ode. Accedunt Poemata et Exercitationes utriusque linguæ,’ 1797, he wrote ‘A Praxis on the Latin Prepositions with Exercises,’ 1823; and several sermons, one of them being the funeral ser- mon on Dr. Parr. Butler's library was rich in Aldines, and in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek manuscripts. The latter were purchased for the British Museum.

Modern And Ancient Geography by Butler Samuel (1828)

Geographia classica, or, The application of antient geography to the classics by Butler Samuel (1831)

An atlas of Ancient geography by Butler Samuel (1834)

A sketch of modern and ancient geography, for the use of schools by Butler Samuel (1841)

An atlas of antient [i.e. ancient] geography by Butler Samuel (1851)

An atlas of antient geography by Butler Samuel (1871)