Given the question: Facts:   - death place: pozières , the somme , france    - resting place: unknown    - caption: george butterworth , 1914    - honorific suffix: mc    - birth name: george sainton kaye butterworth    - death cause: shot by sniper in the battle of the somme    - death date: 05 august 1916    - parents: sir railway company alexander kaye butterworth , general manager , north-east    - occupation: composer dancer , soldier , schoolmaster , music critic , professional morris      - education: aysgarth school eton college    - birth date: 12 july 1885    - name: george butterworth    - nationality: english    - image: butterworth 2.jpg    - birth place: paddington , london , england    - alma mater: trinity college , oxford   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of george butterworth .
The answer is:
george sainton kaye butterworth , mc -lrb- 12 july 18855 august 1916 -rrb- was an english composer best known for the orchestral idyll `` the banks of green willow '' and his song settings of a. e. housman 's poems from `` a shropshire lad '' .