Musical heroes and sporting legends | Letters

George Butterworth | Theresa May’s Boycott | Towpath terrors | Countdown to Ecstasy | Speedy SuguruHow sad that The guide, Somme (Travel, 9 September) merely registers that Butterworth Farm, Pozières, “is named after a missing British soldier”. That soldier was George Butterworth, one of the outstanding composers of his time, great friend of Vaughan Williams and best known for his pieces The Banks of Green Willow and the musical setting for Housman’s poem The Shrop