The Head Mastership of Harrow School, rendered vacant by the
resig- nation of the Reverend Dr. C J. Vaughan, who has held the appointment during the last sixteen years, has been conferred upon the Reverend Henry Montagu Butler, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Mr. Butler graduated in 1855, when he was placed first in the first class of the classical tripos. He is a son of Doctor Butler (Senior 1Vran gler in 1794), late Dean of Peterborough, and formerly Head Master of Harrow School. Mr. Butler in 1852 gained the "Bell's Scholarship." In 1853 and 1854, successively, he obtained Sir William Browne's medal for the Greek ode. In 1854 he gained the Person prize, which is given for the best translation of a proposed passage of Shakespeare, .Ben Jenson, Messinger, or Beaumont and Fletcher, into Greek verse. In the same year he gained the Camden medal, given annually by the Marquis Camden for the best exercise in Latin Hexameter verse, and in the same year, also, he obtained the prize given by the Members of the University for the best dissertation in Latin prose. In 1856 he was elected a Fellow of Trinity College.
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