Samuel Butler (poet)
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Samuel Butler was an English poet and satirist. He is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical poem titled Hudibras.
Portrait of Butler by Pieter Borsseler
Memorial to Butler, Westminster Abbey
Frontispiece and titlepage of a 1744 illustrated and annotated edition of Butler's Hudibras
Henry Bright was a clergyman and schoolmaster in Worcester. He served for 38 years Headmaster at The King's School, Worcester, and is mentioned by Thomas Fuller and Anthony Wood as an exceptional teac
Samuel Butler (poet)
…and censure it to be either well or ill. He was never at the University for the reason alleged." He was educated at the King's School, Worcester, under Henry Bright whose teaching is recorded favourably by Thomas Fuller, a contemporary writer, in his Worthies of England. In early youth he was a servant to the…
Brockbury Hall in the parish of Colwall, Herefordshire
Wall monument to Henry Bright in Worcester Cathedral, with Latin epitaph by Joseph Hall, Dean of Worcester