BUTLER-CLARKE-SOUTHWELL-WANDESFORD, CHARLES HARWARD (_4 son of 17
Earl of Ormonde who d. 30 Jany. 1796_). _b._ 9 Nov. 1780; M.P. for
city of Kilkenny 1802–9 and 1814–20; M.P. for county Kilkenny
1820–30. _d._ Mount Juliet, Kilkenny 7 Nov. 1860.
BUTLER-JOHNSTONE, HENRY (_3 son of 13 Baron Dunboyne 1780–1850_).
_b._ Dublin 28 Aug. 1809; M.P. for Canterbury 8 July 1852 to 21
Feb. 1853 when unseated on petition of the electors, M.P. again
1857–62; colonel commandant Dumfries militia 7 Feb. 1868 to 15
March 1873. _d._ 8 Seamore place, Mayfair, London 1 April 1879.
BUTT, GEORGE MEDD (_2 son of John Butt of Sherborne_). _b._
Sherborne 1797; practised as special pleader; barrister I.T. 25
June 1830, bencher 1845, reader 1858, treasurer 1859; Q.C. 1845;
M.P. for Weymouth 10 July 1852 to 21 March 1857. _d._ 17 Eaton
square, London 11 Nov. 1860.
BUTT, ISAAC (_only son of Rev. Robert Butt R. of Stranorlar, co.
Donegal_). _b._ Glenfin, co. Donegal 6 Sep. 1813; ed. at Royal
school Raphoe and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1832, B.A. 1835,
LL.B. 1836, M.A. and LLD. 1840; Whately professor of political
economy in Trin. coll. Dublin 1836–41; called to Irish bar Nov.
1838; alderman of Dublin 1840; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1859;
carried on a counter agitation to that of the Repeal Association
1843; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1844; M.P. for Harwich 8 May 1852 to 1 July
1852, for Youghal 1852 to 1865 and for Limerick 1871 to death;
leader of the Home Rule party 1871 to death; defended the Fenian
prisoners 1865–9; pres. of Amnesty Association 1869; a founder of
_Dublin Univ. Mag._ 1833, editor Aug. 1834 to 1838; established in
Dublin a weekly newspaper called the _Protestant Guardian_
afterwards amalgamated with the _Warder_; author of _Ovid’s Fasti
translated_ 1833; _The history of Italy_ 1860; _A practical
treatise on the new law of compensation to tenants in Ireland_
1871; _Home government for Ireland_ 1874. _d._ Roebuck cottage
near Dundrum, co. Dublin 5 May 1879. _Dublin Univ. Mag. xciii_,
710–15 (1879); _Sullivan’s New Ireland_ (1877), ii, 306–10, 319;
_Graphic iv_, 485 (1871), _portrait, xix_, 508 (1879), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. iv_, 40 (1844), _portrait_.
BUTT, JAMES PALMER. Educ. at school established in Somers Town,
London by Abbé Carron and at Stonyhurst college; kept a school
with his brother Wm. Henry Butt at Baylis house, Salt hill near
Windsor about 1828 to death. _d._ Baylis house, Salt hill 2 May
1873 aged 84.
BUTTER, DONALD. Surgeon Bengal army 28 Aug. 1833; superintending
surgeon at Benares 31 Dec. 1854 to 23 April 1859 when placed on
h.p. with rank of inspector general; author of _Outline of the
topography and statistics of the Southern districts of Oudh_ 1839;
_Snake bite curable and hydrophobia preventible_ 1873. _d._
Hazelwood, Upper Norwood 24 Dec. 1877 aged 78.
BUTTER, JOHN. _b._ Woodbury, Devon 22 Jany. 1791; ed. at Exeter gr.
sch.; surgeon at Plymouth 1814–20, physician there 1820–56 when he
became blind; M.D. Edin. 1820; originated Plymouth Eye Dispensary
1821; F.L.S. 1817; F.R.S. 21 March 1822; author of _Remarks on
irritative fever commonly called the Plymouth dockyard disease_