1. Raymond Venimore Jack Butt FRAS was a British schoolteacher and fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
16 Facts About Raymond Butt
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Raymond Butt was a member of the Stewards' Enclosure at Henley Royal Regatta for nearly 50 years.
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Raymond Butt was said to be able to recite pi to 3,500 places and to have once memorised the entire British railway timetable.
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Raymond Butt formed a large collection of railway tickets and in 1995 published a directory of "every station, halt, platform and stopping place on the British passenger network".
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Raymond Butt, later known as Peter, was born in Colchester, Essex, on 26 February 1941 to Herbert Butt and his wife Kathleen Butt nee Upchurch.
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Raymond Butt was educated at the King's School, Peterborough, where he was a chorister and developed an interest in rowing.
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Raymond Butt studied natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh where he was taught by the future Nobel laureate Peter Higgs and the mathematician Alexander Aitken.
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Raymond Butt married Jane Woods in 1980 and the couple had a son and a daughter.
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Raymond Butt's pupils at The King's School included Michael Foale, the first British-born astronaut.
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Raymond Butt created the observatory at The King's School and earned a master's degree in astrophysics.
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Raymond Butt was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1977 and jointly authored scientific papers about the Moon.
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Raymond Butt formed a large collection of railway tickets and in 1995 published a directory of "every station, halt, platform and stopping place on the British passenger network".
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Raymond Butt rowed at the Henley Royal Regatta in 1968 when he competed in the Silver Goblets competition for coxless pairs and in 1969 was elected to the Stewards' Enclosure there, performing nearly 50 years service.
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Late in life, Raymond Butt converted from the Church of England to the Eastern Orthodox Church, taking the name of Peter and becoming a reader at the St Edward the Martyr Orthodox Church in Brookwood, Surrey, for which he was required to learn the Greek and Slavonic liturgy.
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Raymond Butt died from the effects of pancreatic cancer on 23 March 2018.
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Raymond Butt's funeral was at the Saint Edward Brotherhood at Brookwood, Woking, according to the Byzantine Rite.