Hugh Butterworth
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| Full name | Hugh Montagu Butterworth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1 November 1885 Saffron Walden, Essex, England |
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| Died | 25 September 1915 (aged 29) Hooge, Belgium |
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| Relations |
Joseph Butterworth (great great grandfather) Alexander Kaye Butterworth (uncle) George Butterworth (cousin) |
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| 1906 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricket Archive, 24 November 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hugh Montagu Butterworth (1 November 1885 – 25 September 1915) was an English first-class cricketer and a school teacher in New Zealand who was killed in action in World War I.
Hugh Butterworth was the first child of George Montagu Butterworth (12 May 1858 – 12 December 1941) and his wife Catherine (née Warde). After Hugh, five daughters followed. George was a solicitor and a tennis player who reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon in 1880.
Hugh was educated at Marlborough and at University College, Oxford. In mid-May 1906 he played two matches for the university team in 1906 as an opening batsman, then, two days later, one match for MCC against the Oxford team, when he made his highest score, 31. He also represented Oxford at Rugby union, hockey and rackets. He played several matches for Wiltshire from 1904 to 1906, mostly in the Minor Counties competition, scoring 122 against Dorset in 1905 and 106 in a victory over MCC in 1906.
A few weeks before Butterworth's final exams in 1907 his family ran into financial difficulties and his father decided to move to New Zealand, where he settled in Cashmere Hills, Christchurch. Hugh and the rest of the family soon joined him, so Hugh was never able to complete his studies.
Hugh took up a position as a master at Wanganui Collegiate School in September 1907 and remained there until he left to enlist in December 1914. He taught English language and literature, and Latin. Known to the students as "Curly", he was a much-admired master. One of his students, Arthur Porritt (who later became Baron Porritt, New Zealand's Governor-General) said, "he was almost automatically loved by every boy who knew him". Another, Roy Joblin, said, "Butterworth's understanding of the boy must have amounted to genius" and praised "his sportsmanship, his almost permanent good temper, his brilliant wit, his ever accessible sympathy and his love of all that was straight and clean".
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