FAMILY GENIUS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 191, 2 May 1918, Page 8

FAMILY GENIUS

The family f.f Dr. IT. Montagu Butler, Master of Trinity, Cambridge, who died in January, at tho age of St, furnished a remarkable example of heredity. KTs grandfather was Rev. Weedon Butler (1734-1823), classical master at Chelsea. Father was Dr. George Butler (head master of Harrow), Senio" Wrangler, 1791. Dv. H. Montagu Butler was himself Senior Classic, 1855; won Bell ScholarI ship, Greek ode, Camden Medal, Person i \ prize, Latin Essay prize; tx-president -1 Union. , ' Brother.—Mr. Spencer Percival Butler, ! | first class in classics at Trinity, of whose ■ • sous t.wo obtained fellowships at. Cam- 1 s! bridge and first class in 'Jripo?, two mors • • obtained first classes, am: one was prosi- • I dc:it of the Camhrijgo Union. :■ Wife.—Miss Agatha .Ramsay (Girlon): j , I Senior Classic. IPS", beating all (he men | .i of her year. Only woman who has ever ■ •• done so. , I Sons.-J. I!. M. Tjullcr (Harrow and I > i Trinitv'! —One of the univ Senior Classic.-;. | II «; Class T, Part 11, History. 1910, with ] i', Gladstone prize; n major scholarship, j : "i!io7; Winchester Reading prize, 1(107; I i i Person scholarship, 1(108; Craven scholar- ] t i iAiip, 1MB; .rtrmvviC: meotiMor "LnV'vu oile, 11 19iW; Browne medal for Greek ode, twice, >l I'M; Porson prize fur Greek verse, 1910; '■ • Powis medal for Latin hexameters, 1910; -'; Chancellor's classical medal, Wll-every J classical prize ho could lake; ex-president i' of tho Uniw; Fellow of Trinity. G. K. si M Butler (Harrow and Trinity): One of > I seven Senior Classics, 19.1.1: Class ], Part, •IT, ITistorv, 1911, with Gladstone prize.; ; ■' won Members" Latin pri::e, T'orson prize, | Montagu Butler prize; ex-president Union >iN ~l° iliitler (Harrow and Trinity): ;j Class if, Pint I, History, 10U. ■'!

; ! The late Grauil Duke of Alecklenburgi! Strelitz, who was found dead in a lake i i with a gunshot wound in the chest, sufi i fored from weak iierv-is and melancholia. .- | That ho was not without good qualities , may bo seen by what the "Weser Zei- .)' tuns" snifl at his death: "If horo and i j there covert allusions aro made to cer- , lain sympathies for England-Ins graud--11 mother wnfi Com nn English PriucossI they are merely exaggerations, the aim -! of which is too clearly recognisable." Tho : I "Tageblatt" Mated: "He is said to have. ' i "iven himself personal trouble concern- ) • in" the fate of captured English officers." . ' Tho lato Grand Duko's grandmother was - ; '111111 to Queen Mary, who frequently s ' stayed at Strelitz. 'The two parts of tho i Mecklenburg Grand Duchy, Scliworm and i strelitz now become united again in tho < \ Grand Duko oE ite.cUen\iuTg-StWin, as i | the lato Grand Duke of Mccklenburg--31 Strelitz left no uuilo heirs. I "T) Q you know von're zrowing hand- ! some, hubbior" "Yos; it's a way I-have i \ when it gets anywhere sear your birth 1 1 day." === __ === _.