George Butterworth
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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.
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
Hugh Butterworth
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Hugh Montagu Butterworth was an English first-class cricketer and a school teacher in New Zealand who was killed in action in World War I.
George Butterworth
…Soldiers". Sir Alexander Butterworth erected a plaque at St Mary's Priory Church, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, in memory of his son and of his nephew, Hugh, who died at Loos in 1915. The Rev. George Butterworth, the composer's grandfather, had been vicar of St Mary's in the previous century. In 1918, Sir…
Hugh Montagu Butterworth