Eyton Butts

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Eyton Butts was an Anglican priest in the 18th century. [1]

The son of Robert Butts, Bishop of Norwich from 1733 to 1738, [2] he was educated at Charterhouse and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. [3] He was Dean of Cloyne from 1770 until his death in 1779. [4]

Notes

  1. ""Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross" Brady, W.M. P204: London; Longmans; 1864
  2. Wikisource-logo.svg "Butts, Robert". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  3. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. i. Abbas – Cutts, (1922) p274
  4. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p312 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878


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