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About Hubert Marshal Butler
Hubert Marshal Butler (2 October 1900 – 5 January 1991)
Irish essayist who wrote on a wide range of topics, from local history and archaeology to the political and religious affairs of eastern Europe before and during World War II.
He traveled to Nazi Austria on his own initiative and at his own expense and helped save Jewish people from being sent to concentration camps
- Born 2 October 1900 at the family home Maiden Hall outside the village of Bennettsbridge in County Kilkenny, Ireland
- Graduated in 1922 from St John's College, Oxford, where he studied classics.
After being recruited by Sir Horace Plunkett to work for the Irish County Libraries from graduation until 1926, Butler later travelled extensively in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia and Montenegro before working with the Quakers in Vienna expediting the escape of Jews after the Anschluss.
- Father, George Butler, was teaching practical agriculture to Gerald Gallagher on the farm at Maiden Hall when Gallagher applied for a position in the British colonial service, where he became the first officer-in-charge of the Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme, the last colonial expansion of the British Empire.
When George Butler died in 1941, Hubert Butler inherited Maiden Hall and returned to live with his family in the house on the banks of the River Nore until his death in 1991. His wife, Susan Margaret — usually referred to as Peggy — was sister of the theatre director Tyrone Guthrie and the moving force behind foundation of the Kilkenny Art Gallery Society.
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Hubert Marshal Butler's Timeline
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October 2, 1900
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Maiden Hall, Benettsbridge, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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| 1991 |
January 5, 1991
Age 90
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Ennisnag, Ireland
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