Name Richard Butler Spouse Susan Ryan (m. 1963) | Succeeded by William Cox Resigned August 9, 2004 | |
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Role Former Governor of Tasmania Previous office Governor of Tasmania (2003–2004) Education Australian National University, University of Sydney Books The Greatest Threat, Fatal Choice: Nuclear, Religious Vocation, Saddam Defiant, Where All the Girls Are Swee | ||
Richard William Butler (21 May 1844 – 21 December 1928) was a British dramatist and editor of The Referee magazine in the late Victorian period.
He shared a joint pen name, Richard Henry, with Henry Chance Newton. Works attributed to Richard Henry include Monte Cristo, Jr (burlesque melodrama 1886); Jubilation (musical mixture 1887); Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim, a parody of the Mary Shelley novel Frankenstein, presented at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in 1887; and Opposition (a debate in one sitting 1892).
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