Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet

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Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet of Cloughgrenan (a townland near Carlow), (died c. February 1704) [1] was an Irish baronet and politician.

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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

  1. 1 2 "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 29 March 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. 1 2 3 4 "ThePeerage - Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Bt" . Retrieved 20 March 2009.
  3. "Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 29 March 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. 1 2 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.
Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Carlow County
1692–1704
With: John Trench 1692–1695
John Allen 1695–1703
Pierce Butler 1703–1704
Succeeded by
Baronetage of Ireland
Preceded by Baronet
(of Cloughgrenan)
c. 1650 – 1704
Succeeded by