Question: Facts: - death place: pozieres , the somme , france - resting place: unknown - caption: george butterworth , 1914 - honorific suffix: mc - birth name: george sainton kaye butterworth - death cause: shot by sniper in the battle of the somme - death date: 05 august 1916 - parents: sir railway company alexander kaye butterworth , general manager , north-east - occupation: composer dancer , soldier , schoolmaster , music critic , professional morris - education: aysgarth school eton college - birth date: 12 july 1885 - name: george butterworth - nationality: english - image: butterworth 2.jpg - birth place: paddington , london , england - alma mater: trinity college , oxford Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of george butterworth .
Answer:
george sainton kaye butterworth , mc -lrb- 12 july 18855 august 1916 -rrb- was an english composer best known for the orchestral idyll '' the banks of green willow '' and his song settings of a. e. housman 's poems from '' a shropshire lad '' .