Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet
Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet of Cloughgrenan (a townland near Carlow), (died c. February 1704)[1] was an Irish baronet and politician.
He was the son of Sir Edmund Butler, 2nd Baronet and Juliana Hyde, daughter of Bernard Hyde.[2] By 1650, he succeeded his father as baronet.[1] In 1670 and again in 1691,[2] Butler was High Sheriff of Carlow. From 1692 until his death, he sat for Carlow County in the Irish House of Commons.[3]
Marriage and issue[]
Butler married firstly Jane Boyle, daughter of the Right Reverend Richard Boyle, Bishop of Leighlin and Ferns,[4] and secondly Jane Pottinger, daughter of Captain Edward Pottinger and widow of John Reynolds, in July 1700.[2] By his first wife, he had two sons.[2] Pierce, the oldest of them, was a Member of Parliament for the same constituency his father had represented and succeeded to the baronetcy.[4]
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References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 29 March 2009.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "ThePeerage - Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Bt". Retrieved 20 March 2009.
- ^ "Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 29 March 2009.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ Jump up to: 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.
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- 1704 deaths
- Butler dynasty
- Politicians from County Carlow
- Irish MPs 1692–1693
- Irish MPs 1695–1699
- Irish MPs 1703–1713
- Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Carlow constituencies
- High Sheriffs of Carlow
- Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland
- Butler baronets, of Cloughgrenan