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 1845. d. 7 Windsor villas, Plymouth 13 Jany. 1877.
BUTTERWORTH, Henry (son of Henry Butterworth of Coventry, timber merchant). b. Coventry 28 Feb. 1786; law publisher at 7 Fleet st. London 1818 to death; representative of ward of Farringdon Without in Court of Common Council 1823–30; law publisher to the Queen 23 Nov. 1852 to death; F.S.A. 6 Jany. 1848. d. Upper Tooting, Surrey 2 Nov. 1860. Memoir of the late H. Butterworth (1861).
BUTTERWORTH, William John. Adjutant 38 Madras N.I. 1821; lieut. col. of 2 European regiment 1841–3 and 1846–51, of 10 Madras N.I. 1843–6; col. of 5 Madras N.I. 3 Dec. 1851 to death; C.B. 20 July 1838; governor of Prince of Wales island, Singapore and Malacca 14 June 1843 to 1855, presented with piece of plate value £700 by the inhabitants 1856; general 28 Nov. 1854. d. Millmead house, Guildford 4 Nov. 1856 aged 55. I.L.N. xxix, 105–6 (1856), portrait.
BUXTON, Bertha H. (dau. of Wm. Lenpold or Leupold of London, merchant). b. 26 July 1844; ed. at Queen’s college, Tufnell park, London; travelled in Holland, Germany and America; published Jennie of “The Prince’s,” a novel by B. H. B. 3 vols. 1876; Won, by the author of Jennie of the Prince’s 3 vols. 1877; Rosabella, a doll’s Christmas story by Auntie Bee 1877; More dolls by Auntie Bee 1878; the following books have her name on them Fetterless though bound together 3 vols. 1879, Great Grenfell gardens 3 vols. 1879, Nell—On and off the stage 3 vols. 1880, From the wings 3 vols. 1880, Many loves 3 vols. 1880, Little Pops a nursery romance 1881, Sceptre and king 1881. (m. at Hanwell parish church 22 Dec. 1860, Henry Buxton of Hanwell, merchant son of Edward Buxton, merchant). d. 12 St. Mary’s terrace, Kensington, London 31 March 1881. Biograph iv, 159–62 (1880); Carisbrooke Mag. April 1881, portrait; Tinsley’s Mag. xxviii, 499–500 (1881).