- GB-2014-WSA-04272
- Person
- ca. 1723-1768
BUTTS, ROBERT, son of Right Rev. Robert Butts DD, Bishop of Ely, and his first wife Elizabeth, sister of Robert Eyton, Shropshire; b.; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1736/7 (Preston's); left 1740; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. 28 Jan 1740/1, scholar 10 Apr 1741; BA 1745; MA 1747; ordained deacon 28 Oct 1746, priest 2 Nov 1746 (both Ely); Rector of Bluntisham, Hunts, from 1746; Vicar of Glemsford, Suffolk, 1746 (dispensation to hold with Bluntisham, 1746/7); m. 20 Apr 1747 Jane, dau. of Ven. Reuben Clerke DD, Archdeacon of Essex; d. 30 Nov 1768.