Alfred Joshua Butler

Alfred Joshua Butler F.S.A. (1850 - 1936) was a British ancient historian who specialised in the history of the Copts.

Biography He studied at the University of Oxford and from 1877 worked at his Brasenose College. When the Coptic Congress in 1911 raised some demands to the British authority to end the injustices the Copts suffered from under British rule he sided with the Copts against Sir Eldon Gorst, the British Consul-General in Egypt (1907–1911), whose policy was (to) exalt the Mohammedan and to tread down the Christian, to license the majority and to curb the minority.

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