George Butler

Who is George Butler?

George Stephen Butler, born at Marlborough, Wiltshire on 16 December 1900 and died at Kingswear, Devon on 21 September 1969, played first-class cricket for Somerset in one match in 1920 and Minor Counties cricket for Wiltshire from 1920 to 1939. While appearing for Wiltshire, he also played in seven first-class matches, mostly for teams representing the Minor Counties as a whole against touring sides in the 1930s.

Educated at Marlborough College, Butler was a right-handed opening or middle order batsman. He bowled only seven overs in first-class cricket, and his bowling style is not known, but in Minor Counties cricket he was a fairly regular bowler in his early career, sometimes opening the bowling for Wiltshire.

His one match for Somerset came against Oxford University in 1920, and he made only seven and two in a low-scoring match that was over inside two days. That was the limit of his first-class county cricket, but in 1927, having played regularly for Wiltshire, he appeared in a second first-class match, this time for a team representing "The West" against the New Zealand touring side. Butler opened the batting and scored six.