Item VII/ii/16 - Poems by George Butt

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.