Butler Collection

The King of Kings -- Jesus Christ surrounded by rulers (kings, queens, emperors, etc) from various countries and periods in history. 1916

Scotland Forever! The Charge of the Scots Greys, the British heavy cavalry regiment that
Battle of WATERLOO : Scotland for ever ! the charge of the Scots Greys

Pea Apparatus by William Heath Robinson
An interesting and elegant apparatus designed to overcome once for all the difficulties of conveying green peas to the mouth

Jeeves & Wooster / Book
When the jolly old storm clouds rolled up, Bertie Wooster turned instinctively to his man Jeeves...Jeevess judgment was infallible; likwise his taste in neckwear

The Remnants of an Army. Photomechanical print after Elizabeth Thompson (later Lady Butler). Associated with the Retreat from Kabul, 1st Afghan War (1838-1842). Date: 1856

Jeeves and Wooster
In Thank You Jeeves!, Jeeves gives notice when Bertie Wooster, his employer, insists on playing the banjolele

W B Yeats / Nobel
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Irish poet and dramatist

Scotland Forever

Jeeves & Wooster
Bertie Woosters imperturbable gentlemans gentleman is looked to for counsel & help on all sides

The Importance of Being Earnest at the St Jamess Theatre, London

Steady the Drums and Fifes, 1811. Colour photolithograph after Lady Butler, published 1960 (c)

H B Daft, English footballer and cricketer
Harry Butler Daft (1866-1945), English footballer with the Corinthians, Notts County, Nottingham Forest, Newark and England, also a first-class cricketer with Nottinghamshire. 1890s

The Queen reviews the Grenadier Guards
At the tercentenary parade of the Grenadier Guards at Windsor, the Queen turns to speak to Colonel Sir Thomas Butler, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Regiment. Date: 1956

Young woman washing clothes at a sink
A young woman at a kitchen sink washing clothes using a washboard. There is a stack of four dinner plates waiting to be washed up, a kettle, and a tin of One-O-One which cleans without scratching

St Matilda / Butler Lives
SAINT MATILDA Queen of Henry I of Germany, noted for her philanthropy; she founded many convents

THANK YOU JEEVES
more glorious fooling by P. G. Wodehouse

Louis IX (Butler)
LOUIS IX king of France, crusader and saint

Yeats / Graphic 1923
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Irish poet and senator, shown here attending the first meeting of the new Dail Eireann in Dublin

Saint Andrew (Butler)
SAINT ANDREW one of Jesuss apostles, he is depicted holding the cross on which he will be crucified

A Sheltered Corner. Butler, Mildred Anne 1858 - 1941

Edison Lightbulb Advert
The Edison lightbulb American advertisement

Shirley Temple starring in Captain January
Shirley Temple (1926-2014) starring in Captain January (American musical comedy-drama film directed by David Butler), 1936 - 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation Production. Date: 1936

Mitchells and Butlers Brewery Malting Floor
The Malting Floor at the Mitchells and Butlers Cape Hill Brewery, Smethwick, West Midlands

Butler Advises Wooster
It might be judicious, said Jeeves, " if you were to attempt to persuade his lordship that the spirit in which you embraced Miss Stoker was a purely brotherly one."

Old Maid card - Butler. circa 1940s

Griffith Brewer and Wilbur Wright after the flight at Camp dAuvours, 8 October 1908. Later that same day Wilbur took Hon C.S. Rolls, Frank Hedges Butler and Major B.F.S

Moment of Departure - all the staff line up to say Goodbye
A quite wonderful German postcard illustrating the Moment of Departure - all the staff line up to say Goodbye! Date: circa 1910s

Syntax Star-Gazing
Dr Syntax shows a lady the stars through a telescope, while the butler trips over a dog on the stairs and drops his tray of crockery

Conservative party television team
The Conservative Party television team and some election posters for the General Election of 8th October 1959

Saint Bruno / Butler Lives
SAINT BRUNO alias BRUNO THE GREAT Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lorraine

The first motorcycle
Invention by Edward Butler, created in 1887

Wild Bill Hickok / Postcd
WILD BILL HICKOK alias JAMES BUTLER American frontiersman, stage driver, scout, and US marshal; famous as a crack shot

Lady Elizabeth Butler
LADY ELIZABETH BUTLER nee THOMPSON English painter of military and battle scenes

F H Butler (Vanity Fair)
FRANK HEDGES BUTLER, noted balloonist, looks down from the hot air balloon basket he is riding in and prepares to speak through his megaphone

W B Yeats - Etching
William Butler YEATS Irish poet and statesman as a young man

W B Yeats / The Tatler
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Irish poet and dramatist in his study at Woburn Buildings, London

Loyola / Butler Lives
IGNATIUS LOYOLA Spanish saint, founder of the Jesuit Order

SAMUEL BUTLER (D. 1902)
SAMUEL BUTLER author of Erewhon and The way of all flesh photo March 1888

Butler and Tray
The butler brings a packet of cigarettes on a tray

Dinner, Servants Hall
Dinner in the servants hall of a large household : the butler presides, with housekeeper, ladys maids, housemaids and footmen ranged in order of seniority

W B Yeats / Shackleton
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Irish poet and dramatist

John Butler Yeats 1839-1922 (c.1901). Purser, Sarah Henrietta 1848 - 1943. Date: 1901 (circa)

Caricature by illustrator Edmund Dulac of Kitchener looking irate because his butler has dropped a piece of blue and white china. Apparently Kitchener was a collector. Date: 1916

The Ladies of Llangollen
Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby, The Ladies of Llangollen, Wales - unknown publication

Holy Roman Empire. Officers of the table and the chamber of the imperial court: butler, cook, barber and tailor. Engraving after Le Triomphe de l'Empereur Maximilien I, by J

The sommelier in his function. Engraving after a woodcut in Sebastian Munster's Cosmographia universalis, published in Basel in 1552

Table service of a Lady of Quality. 19th-century
Table service of a Lady of Quality. Chromolithography from a miniature of the Roman de Renaud de Montauban, 15th century manuscript

A rich gourmet feasting at home in Georgian England. Misanthropic Sir Simon dining alone. A butler pours wine and maids bring platters of food. The Pleasures of Solitude

Wrestling club for women in Vauxhall
Members of a wrestling club for women, opened in Vauxhall, London in 1928

Womens wrestling school in Vauxhall, 1928
Gladiators of the feminine age. A wrestling school for women recently opened in Vauxhall, London

Futuristic dinner party
A futuristic chemical dinner party -- a few tablets are served for each guest. Just think -- no washing up! Date: 1899

Stephano in The Tempest by William Shakespeare, at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, 4 December 1905 for one week

Ancient monument of a bishop in Temple Church, London
Ancient monument of a bishop under the southeast window of the 12th century Temple Church, London

1945 Farnborough Show - de Havilland, Walker, Butler
1945 Farnborough Air Show. From right: Geoffrey de Havilland, C.C. Walker (standing) and Alan Butler. Date: 1945

Douglas DC-7 N401US (msn 45145), a fire tanker of Butler Aviation Services, Date: circa 2005

T Campbell Black, pilot Date: 1935

H L Brook, pilot Date: 1935

Flight Lieutenant G H Stainforth Pilot Raf 1935
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Flight-Lieutenant R L R Atcherley, pilot Date: 1935

Flight-Lieutenant J N Boothman, pilot Date: 1935

Captain Hs Broad, pilot Date: 1935

Captain C D Barnard, pilot Date: 1935

C W A Scott, pilot Date: 1935

We Don't Know Where We're Going
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for We Don't Know Where We're Going (Until We're There!) By Ralph Butler and Noel Gay. The image shows a smiling array of British marching soldiers

Run Rabbit Run! Music Cover
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for Run Rabbit Run!, from The Little Dog Laughed. Music and words by Noel Gay and Ralph Butler

She's Fallen For The Foreman
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for She's Fallen For The Foreman, by Ralph Butler, Tolchard Evans and Everett Lynton

After The War Is Over, Music Cover
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for After The War Is Over, a comedy song waltz, music by Tolchard Evans, words by Ralph Butler

Got Any Gum Chum? Music Cover
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for Got Any Gum Chum? Words by Ralph Butler and Archie De Bear, music by Tolchard Evans

Un Maitre D'Hotel
A side profile portrait sketch of a rather large butler, standing with his hand sbehind his back, holding a white cloth. Date: circa 1901

Edward Paine Butler
A portrait painting of Edward Paine Butler, 1811-1849, who was the eldest son of lawyer and landowner, Gamaliel Butler. Date: circa 1845

Butler's Amber Ale

Butler's All Malt Stout

Music cover, Run, Rabbit, Run, words by Noel Gay and Ralph Butler, music by Noel Gay, from The Little Dog Laughed, George Black's Show Shop of 1939. Date: 1939

NUS President Charles Clarke with two students
NUS (National Union of Students) President Charles Clarke (b.1950, later a Labour MP and Cabinet Minister) with two students, Clare Weber and Paul Butler

Designs for the Electric Lamp on the Thames Embankment 1870
Proposed design by Timothy Butler of children climbing and an overflowing cornucopia

LADY E BUTLER
LADY ELEANOR BUTLER and Miss Ponsonby (1757 - 1831), the Ladies of Llangollen, out walking with their dog 1739 - 1829

Sir Walter Scott - Abbotsford - Chair
Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) Scottish novelist's empty chair at Abbotsford, after his death Date:

Draycott, Cotswold village, Butler Saw Mills workmen with a steam traction engine in the background. Date: circa 1908

Plas Newydd, historic house in Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales - home of the Ladies of Llangollen, Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby. Date: circa 1910s

The Butler, at Tooles Theatre, London, with the comic actor John Lawrence Toole as David Trot. Date: 1887

Comic postcard, Butler and his masters wife Date: 20th century

Mrs Harry Barclay, Mr Godfrey-Butler, Miss Delia Crossley and Major Frank Scott-Murray on holiday in Biarritz. Date: 1924

Richard Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (1751-1816), an Irish satirist, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Page in The Bystander magazine 1936 featuring photographs of four aristocratic children - David Greville, Lord Brooke, the future 8th Earl of Warwick (who sold Warwick Castle to Madame Tussaud s)

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