Ancient Society
Fr Butler was made a Canon of Kimberley Cathedral before he and his wife Hilda retired to Wimborne in the south of England in 1995. There he became part of the Minster staff, where he was also an enthusiastic bellringer, practising a skill he had learned in his youth. He was a member of the Ancient Society of College Youths, the premier change ringing society in the City of London, to which he was elected in 1947. Amongst his other accomplishments were sign-writing and book-binding.