George Sainton Kaye Butterworth M.C. (1885 - 1916)

Born 12 Jul 1885 in Paddington, London, England

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Died 5 Aug 1916 at age 31 in Pozieres, Somme, Picardie, France

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Biography

George Butterworth M.C. is Notable.

George was born in 1885. He was the son of Sir Alexander Kaye Butterworth and his wife Julia Margaret Wigan. Soon after his birth, his family moved to York so that his father could take up an appointment as general manager of the North Eastern Railway, which was based there.

He went to prep school at Aysgarth School and then attended Eton College. He showed musical promise at Eton and went to Trinity College, Oxford, where he became more focused on music, becoming President of the University Music Club.

• Fact: Residence (1891) St Peter, Bedfordshire, England
• Fact: Residence (1901) Eton, Buckinghamshire, England

He began a career in music following leaving Trinity College, and became a respected composer and is best known for the orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from A Shropshire Lad.

George Butterworth became friends with the folk song collector Cecil James Sharp (1859-1924); the composer and folk song enthusiast Ralph Vaughan Williams; the future Director of the Royal College of Music, Hugh Allen; and a baritone and future conductor, Adrian Boult. He travelled with Vaughan Williams collecting folk songs.

George served in World War One and was a Lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry.

He passed away in 1916, having been killed in action in France. His death was due to him being shot by a sniper in the Battle of the Somme. He was 31 years old. George Butterworth was awarded the Military Cross.

Sources

• England & Wales Civil Birth Index - FreeBMD. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Name: George Sainton K Butterworth; Registration Year: 1885; Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep;Registration district: Paddington; Inferred County: London; Volume: 1a; Page: 27
• Church of England Baptisms - Ancestry.com. Gloucestershire, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1913 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Name: George Sainton Kaye Butterworth; Event Type: Baptism; Baptism Date: 30 Aug 1885; Baptism Place: Deerhurst with Apperley, Gloucestershire, England; Parish as it Appears: Deerhurst; Father: Alexander Kaye Butterworth; Mother: Julia Margarett Butterworth
• Deaths Great War database - Military-Genealogy.com, comp. UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Name: George Sainton Kaye-Butterworth; Death Date: 4 Aug 1916; Rank: Lieutenant (T); Regiment: Durham Light Infantry; Battalion: 13th Battalion; Type of Casualty: Killed in action
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Commonwealth War Graves Commission; London, United Kingdom; Thiepval Memorial France, Somme And The Ancre, 1916-1917, Part VII Buckley-Campbell; Source Information: Ancestry.com. UK, Commonwealth War Graves, 1914-1921 and 1939-1947 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Name: George Sainton Kaye Butterworth; Age: 31; Birth Date: abt 1885; Death Date: 5 Aug 1916; Cemetery: The Thiepval Memorial; Burial Country: France; Father: Sir Alexander Kaye Butterworth; Regiment: Durham Light Infantry; Region or Memorial: France
• Probate Calendar - Ancestry.com. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Name: George Sainton Kaye Butterworth; Death Date: 5 Aug 1916; Death Place: Middlesex, England; Probate Date: 26 Jan 1917; Registry: London, England
• Find-a-Grave Index - Ancestry.com. Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Name: George Sainton Kaye Butterworth; Birth Date: 12 Jul 1885; Birth Place: Paddington, City of Westminster, Greater London, England; Death Date: 5 Aug 1916; Death Place: Pozieres, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France; Cemetery: Thiepval Memorial; Burial or Cremation Place: Thiepval, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France; Find A Grave: Memorial #9606452
• Wikipedia: George Butterworth
• Wikidata: Item Q774863, en:Wikipedia

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