Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Butler, Henry Montagu
BUTLER, The Rev. Henry Montagu, Head Master of Harrow School, youngest son of the late Rev. George Butler, D.D., Head Master of Harrow, and afterwards Dean of Peterborough, was born in 1833, and educated at Harrow, under Dr. Vaughan, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was elected Bell University Scholar in 1852, and Battie University Scholar in 1853. In 1853 he won Sir W. Browne's medal for the Greek ode, and in 1854 the Porson Prize, the Greek ode, the Camden medal for Latin Hexameters, and the Members' Prize for a Latin essay. In 1855 he graduated B.A. as Senior Classic, and in the same year was elected Fellow of his college. On the retirement of Dr. Vaughan, at Christmas, 1859, he was elected to the head mastership of the school, over which his father had presided for twenty-four years, from 1805 to 1829. He was honorary chaplain to the Queen, 1875–77; chaplain in ordinary, 1877; prebendary of St. Paul's and examining chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1879. He has been several times select preacher at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He published in 1861 and in 1869 volumes of "Sermons preached in the Chapel of Harrow School."