butler

The head servant in a household who is usually in charge of food service, the care of silverware, and the deportment of the other servants.

American army officer and politician. His harsh rule as military governor of New Orleans (May-December 1862) led to charges of corruption and Butler's removal. He later opened the impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson (1868).

American educator who advocated peace through education. He shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize.

English poet remembered primarily for his three-part work Hudibras (1663-1678), a venomous mock-heroic satire on the Puritans.

British writer best known for The Way of All Flesh (1903), a semiautobiographical novel satirizing family life in mid-Victorian England.