Butler is "The butler did it!" The best-known fictional manservant, and the archetype of the quintessential British butler, is himself not a butler at all. Reginald Jeeves, the iconic creation of author P. G. Wodehouse is a "gentleman's gentleman" and general factotum. Probably the best-known fictional butlers are Alfred from the "Batman" comic and films; Hudson of Upstairs, Downstairs television fame; Mr Carson from the Downton Abbey television series; and Crichton from J. M. Barrie's "The Admirable Crichton". Lesser-knowns include Mr. Belvedere from the novel "Belvedere", which was adapted into a feature film with sequels and later a television series; Lurch,
William Allen Butler and founder of the American Fine Arts Society, who was born in 1856. One of his daughters married John P. Crosby, another married Daniel B. Lord. His other children included Benjamin Franklin Butler, Jr., Mrs. Edmund Dwight, Mrs. Thomas S. Kirkbride, and Mrs. Alfred Booth. Butler died at his residence, Round Oak, in Palisade Avenue in Yonkers, on September 9, 1902. Following a simple ceremony at his estate in Yonkers, a service was held at the First Presbyterian Church of Yonkers, and he was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx. William Allen Butler William Allen Butler (February 20, 1825 – September