{"id":564,"date":"2013-12-05T15:22:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T15:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schoolgateway.westminster.org.uk\/?p=564"},"modified":"2013-12-05T15:22:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T15:22:54","slug":"what-the-butler-saw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/schoolgateway.westminster.org.uk\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"What the Butler saw&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/schoolgateway.westminster.org.uk\/?attachment_id=556\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-556\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-556\" title=\"P202_43_Butler, William James\" src=\"http:\/\/schoolgateway.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/P202_43_Butler-William-James-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/schoolgateway.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/P202_43_Butler-William-James-189x300.jpg 189w, http:\/\/schoolgateway.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/P202_43_Butler-William-James-645x1024.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a>William John Butler, pictured left, has his name carved in the top left corner of the Gateway.\u00a0 Admitted first to Grant\u2019s House in 1830 he became a King\u2019s Scholar in 1832 and rowed against Eton on 12 May 1836.\u00a0 He was elected to Trinity College Cambridge the same year and embarked on a career in the church.\u00a0 Eventually rising to the role of Dean of Lincoln in 1885, Butler continued to take a great interest in his old school.\u00a0 He served as a Busby Trustee from 25 May 1889 and preached a sermon on \u2018Westminster School: its Past and its Future\u2019 at Commemoration in 1890 ending \u2018<em>Thus may we look for God\u2019s blessing upon the School which we love; thus may we cherish a reasonable hope that a noble future lies before her\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William John Butler, pictured left, has his name carved in the top left corner of the Gateway.\u00a0 Admitted first to Grant\u2019s House in 1830 he became a King\u2019s Scholar in 1832 and rowed against Eton on 12 May 1836.\u00a0 He&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/schoolgateway.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/schoolgateway.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/schoolgateway.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schoolgateway.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schoolgateway.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/schoolgateway.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"http:\/\/schoolgateway.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/schoolgateway.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schoolgateway.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schoolgateway.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}