Edward Montagu Butler

Edward Montagu Butler was an English first-class cricketer and schoolmaster. Butler was born to a prominent family of academics and athletes, the son of Henry Montagu Butler who, along with his own father, George Butler, was headmaster of Harrow School. His mother, Georgina Isabella Elliot, was the granddaughter of diplomat Hugh Elliot. He played two matches for Middlesex in 1885, and earned Cambridge cricket blues in 1888 and 1889. He also represented Cambridge in singles and doubles racquets, and singles tennis, and in the Amateur Championships in racquets he was singles champion in 1889, and doubles champion with Manley Kemp in 1892. Butler was an assistant master at Harrow from 1891 to 1919.