Henry Montagu Butler

Henry Montagu Butler (born July 2, 1833, Gayton, Northamptonshire, Eng.—died Jan. 14, 1918, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) was the headmaster of Harrow School in England from 1859 to 1885, who reformed and modernized the school’s curriculum. Butler’s father, George Butler, had been the Harrow headmaster before him. Educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was elected to the Harrow headmastership at the age of 26. The young Butler, opposed at first by an old-fashioned staff,...