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The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast

William Roscoe · Charles Welsh

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Published2007
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William Roscoe

William Roscoe

William Roscoe was a British banker, lawyer and politician. He is best known as one of England's first abolitionists, and as the author of the poem for children The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast. In his day he was also respected as a historian and art collector, as well as a botanist and miscellaneous writer. The standard author abbreviation Roscoe is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

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