Evangeline Mary Butler (1859 - 1864)

Born 26 May 1859 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England

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Died 20 Aug 1864 at age 5 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Evangeline was born in 1859. Evangeline was the child of George Butler and Josephine Grey. She died tragically. At the age of five she fell over the banisters of the top landing of the family home at Cheltenham and fell down onto the stone floor beneath. She died instantly. Evangeline passed away in 1864. The death had a lasting impact on her mother and is thought to have been the catalyst of her revolutionary work on social reform. This work started almost immediately after the death of Evangeline.

Sources

• H. C. G. Matthew, ‘Butler, George (1819–1890)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 10 Sept 2017. This is a subscription site but access is free to readers o British libraries whose library subscribes.

• Wikipedia biography of her mother, Josephine Butler [1]