Sir Richard Butler, 5th Baronet
Sir Richard Butler | |
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| Member of Parliament for County Carlow | |
| In office 1730–1761 Serving with Robert Burton | |
| Preceded by | Jeffrey Paul Robert Burton |
| Succeeded by | Benjamin Burton Thomas Butler |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1699 |
| Died | 25 November 1771 (aged 71–72) |
| Spouse |
Henrietta Percy (m. 1728) |
| Relations | Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet (grandfather) Sir Pierce Butler, 4th Baronet (uncle) Edward Abney (grandfather) |
| Children | 10, including Thomas, Pierce |
| Parent(s) | James Butler Frances Abney Parker |
Sir Richard Butler, 5th Baronet (1699 – 25 November 1771)[1] was an Irish politician and baronet.
Early life
[edit]He was the eldest son of James Butler and Frances (née Abney) Parker Butler. His mother was the widow of Sir John Parker, who lived at Fermoyle in County Longford.[2]
His father was the second son of Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet and his mother was a daughter of Sir Edward Abney, MP for Leicester.[2]
Career
[edit]Butler represented County Carlow in the Irish House of Commons from 1730 to 1761.[3]
In 1732, he succeeded his uncle Pierce as baronet.[1]
Personal life
[edit]In 1728, he married Henrietta Percy (1701–1794), daughter of Sir Henry Percy and Eliza (née Paul) Percy. Her grandfather was Sir Anthony Percy, Lord Mayor of London in 1699.[4] Together, they had four sons and six daughters, including:[5]
- Judith Butler (1730–1775), who married Thomas Tennant, Jr.[citation needed]
- Sir Thomas Butler, 6th Baronet (1735–1772), MP for County Carlow and Portarlington who married Dorothea Bayly, only daughter of Very Rev. Edward Bayly, Archdeacon of Dublin.[6]
- Ann Eliza Butler (1736–1764), who married William Steuart, son of Col. Hon. John Steuart (nephew and heir of William Steuart), in c. 1752.[6]
- James Butler (1736–1787), a captain in the 1st Regiment of Horse who died unmarried.[6]
- Henrietta Butler (b. 1738), who married Nicholas Gordon.[6]
- Jane Butler (1741–1802), who married Nicholas Trench, son of Richard Trench.[6]
- Eleanor Butler (b. 1742), who married Edward Eustace, son of James Eustace, in 1765.[6]
- Pierce Butler (1744–1822), a soldier, Founding Father, signatory of the U.S. Constitution, and South Carolina's inaugural Senator in the U.S. Senate.[7]
- William Butler of Broomville (1747–1789), who married Henrietta Nixon, daughter of Abraham Nixon.[citation needed]
Sir Richard died on 25 November 1771 and was succeeded by his eldest son Thomas.[5]
Descendants
[edit]His great-grandson, hereditary and absentee plantation owner Pierce Mease Butler, authorized The Great Slave Auction of 1859 to pay gambling debts.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 27 March 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 612.
- ^ "Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 27 March 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume II, page 258.
- ^ a b Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 189.
- ^ a b c d e f Butler, Pierce (2007). The Letters of Pierce Butler, 1790-1794: Nation Building and Enterprise in the New American Republic. University of South Carolina Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-1-57003-689-7. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
- ^ McGee, Thomas Darcy (1831). A History of the Irish Settlers in North America (2nd ed.). Boston: American Celt Office. p. 32.
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