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BUTLER, SOMERSET HAMILTON, 1ST EARL OF CARRICK (I), second son of Rev. Thomas Butler, 6th Viscount Ikerrin (I), Anglican clergyman, Chaplain to Army in Flanders, and Margaret, dau. of James Hamilton, Bangor, co. Down; b. 9 Sep 1719; succ. brother [check] as 7th Viscount Ikerrin (I), 20 Oct 1721; adm. Jan 1728/9; in school list 1731; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 1 Jul 1735; Privy Councillor (I) Apr 1746; LLD Dublin 23 Feb 1747; created Earl of Carrick (I) 10 Jun 1748; m. 18 May 1745 Lady Juliana Boyle, eldest dau. of Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon (I) (qv); d. 15 Apr 1774.

BUTLER, THOMAS, eldest son of Gregory Butler, Westminster, and Annis, dau. of Edward Stone, St. Margaret’s, Westminster; b.; adm.; Min. Can. 1630; BB (Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS lxix, f. 137); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1633, aged 16, Bishop Williams scholar 6 Nov 1634, matr. Easter 1634; BA 1636/7.

BUTLER, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1749 (Macklin's); left 1749.

BUTLER, WILLIAM JOHN, eldest son of John Laforey Butler, Finchley, Middlesex, London merchant and banker, and Henrietta, dau. of Capt. Robert Patrick; b. 10 Feb 1818; adm. (G) 7 Oct 1830; KS 1832; rowed v. Eton 12 May 1836; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1836, adm. pens. 2 Jun 1836, scholar 1837; BA 1840; MA 1844 (incorp. Oxford 1847); DD 1885; ordained deacon 1841, priest 1842 (Winchester); Curate, Dogmersfield, Hants., 1841-3, Puttenham, Surrey, 1843-4; Perpetual Curate of Wareside, Herts., 1844-6; Vicar of Wantage, Berks., 1846-80; founder and Warden of Penitential Sisterhood of St. Mary, Wantage, 1850; elected Bishop of Natal by diocesan synod 25 Oct 1866, but his election was disapproved by Archbishop Longley; Hon. Canon, Christ Church, Oxford, 1872; Canon of Worcester 1880-5; Dean of Lincoln from 15 Jul 1885; a Busby Trustee from 25 May 1889; author, Sermons for Working Men, 1847, and other works; m. 29 Jul 1843 Emma, dau. of George Henry Barnett, Glympton Park, Oxfordshire, banker; d. 14 Jan 1894. DNB.

BUTLEY, JOHN, son of John Butley, Westminster; b.; in school lists 1731 (surname misread by Russell Barker & Stenning as Bulkley), 1733; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1734; KS 1735; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1739, matr. 22 Jun 1739, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1739 - 23 Jun 1749, void; BA 1743; ordained; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1746; resident in Greenwich, Kent; living 1754; author, The Holy Bible illustrated and explained in a complete measure for every Christian, 5th edn., 1762; m. 2 Feb 1748 Catherine Stonestreet (IGI). [Note will of Catherine Butley, East Greenwich, Kent, widow, proved PCC 8 May 1775]

BUTSON, WILLIAM EDWARDS STRANGE, son of Lieut. -Col. W. Strange Butson, Upper Gloucester Place, Dorset Square, London; b. 7 Aug 1869; adm. (H) 31 May 1883; left Aug 1885; an estate agent in North Wales; served during 1914-18 war in Forage Department; temp. Lieut. , RASC 1 Dec 1915.

BUTT, ---; b.; adm.; a pensioner 1566/7 (tutor, The Sub-Dean) (Chapter Muniments 54011-3).

BUTT, ---; b.; in under school list 1732.

BUTT, ---; b.; in under school list 1754.

BUTT, GEORGE, second son of Carey Butt, Lichfield, Staffs., surgeon, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Marten, Lichfield, Staffs., apothecary; b. 26 Dec 1741; in school list 1754; KS 1756; his acting as Demea in the Adelphi in 1759 was so successful that “he was, as he declared, for the only time in his life, overflowing with money forced upon him by the liberality of his audience” (Life and Times of Mrs Sherwood, 1910, 4); Capt. of the School 1760; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1761, matr. 21 May 1761, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1761 - void 8 Oct 1772, expiry year of grace as R. Stanford and V. Clifton; BA 1765; MA 1768; BD and DD 1793; ordained deacon 2 Jun 1765, priest 20 Sep 1767 (both Oxford); Curate of Leigh, Staffs.; had leave of absence from Ch. Ch. to act as tutor in private family (Winnington of Stanford Court), 17 Dec 1765; Rector of Stanford on Teme, Worcs., from 31 Aug 1771; Vicar of Clifton, Worcs., Aug 1771 - res Mar 1787; Vicar of Newchurch, Isle of Wight, 1778-83; Rector of Notgrove, Gloucs., 1783; Chaplain in Ordinary to George III 1783 (still 1793); Vicar of Kidderminster, Worcs., from 23 Feb 1787; one of the circle of minor poets and literary ladies who gathered round Anna Seward, the “Swan” of Lichfield; author, Isaiah Versified, 1784, and other poems; in his Poems, 1793, ii, 107, he refers to his “partialities for Westminster School”; m. 26 Apr 1773 Mary Martha, dau. of Henry Sherwood, Coventry, Warwicks., a London silk merchant; d. 30 Sep 1795. DNB.