George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC was an English composer who was best known for the orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from A Shropshire Lad. He was awarded the Military Cross for his gallantry during the fighting at Pozières in the First World War, and died in the Battle of the Somme.
George Butterworth, c. 1914
Blue plaque commemorating Butterworth's childhood home in Driffield Terrace, York
Memorial to George Butterworth at the Pozières Memorial, inscribed: One of "the lads that will die in their glory and never be old"
Plaque, Deerhurst Church
Alfred Edward Housman was an English classical scholar and poet. After an initially poor performance while at university, he took employment as a clerk in London and established his academic reputation by publishing as a private scholar at first. Later Housman was appointed Professor of Latin at University College London and then at the University of Cambridge. He is now acknowledged as one of the foremost classicists of his age and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars of any time. His editions of Juvenal, Manilius, and Lucan are still considered authoritative.
A. E. Housman
Valley House, Housman's birthplace
The site of the 17th-century Fockbury House (later known as The Clock House). Home of Housman from 1873 to 1878
Home of Housman from 1860 to 1873 and again from 1878 to 1882. His younger brother Laurence was born here in 1865.