Samuel Butler

 Samuel Butler (1835–1902), English writer, artist and satirist wrote The Way of All Flesh (1903) and earned the praise of George Bernard Shaw who deemed him "the greatest English writer of the latter half of the nineteenth century"

Samuel Butler was born on 4 December 1835 at the rectory at Langar, near Bingham, Nottinghamshire, England. His mother Fanny Worsley (1808–1873), and his father, Thomas Butler (1806–1886), was rector of Langar and canon of Lincoln. Samuel was the eldest and had three siblings, Thomas, Henrietta and May. Butler would soon reject his strict and sometimes harsh Anglican upbringing, when the texts of Charles Darwin were causing so much controversy and caused the two to quarrel.