BUTLER, George (1815-1884)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0372 LONDON COLLECTION MANUSCRIPTS/4
Held at	: Bishopsgate Institute   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/library ›
Full title	: BUTLER, George (1815-1884)
Date(s)	: 1850-1883
Level of description	: Fonds
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Butler | George | 1815-1884 | shoemaker and poet

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in Winchester in 1815; when Butler was four years old, the family moved to London in search of employment and in later years, he learned the family trade of boot and shoemaking; ran a shop in Ben Jonson Road, Stepney (formerly Rhodeswell Road); married, lived in Baker Street, Stepney, and had nine children, of which two boys and three girls reached adulthood; around 1850, Butler found religion and became an active member of the Open Air Mission, working together with City missionaries to offer material and spiritual support to the disadvantaged in the East End; died in March 1884 while living in Stepney Green and was buried in Tower Hamlets Cemetery as a non conformist in unconsecrated ground and in a public, unmarked grave.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Handwitten notebook, entitled 'Manuscript of various pieces of poetry and prose by A Wise Man of the East' containing religious and other poetry composed by George Butler, with notes on the inspirations and subjects for many of the poems, with photocopy of notebook (c200pp) (May 1850 - September 1883).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Single item.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Documents cannot be photocopied at present. Digital photography (without flash) is permitted for research purposes on completion of the Library's Copyright Declaration form and with respect to current UK copyright law.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited at the Bishopsgate Institute by Joy S and David Buchanan, 15 June 2005.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Poems published in: Buchanan, Joy S., By a Wise Man of the East: otherwise Goerge Butler(Feather Books, Shrewsbury, 1997).

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Stefan Dickers.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
12 July 2005.