Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler was born in 1835, the son of a clergyman and grandson of a bishop; he refused ordination and left to raise sheep in New Zealand, from which he returned in 1864 after doubling his capital. He painted and exhibited at the Royal Academy, composed music, challenged Darwin on natural selection, translated Homer into prose, and left an autobiographical novel published after his death. He never married and died in London in 1902, aged sixty-six.

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• NovelErewhonSamuel Butler · 1872LiteraturePublic domain