Sir Thomas Butler, 6th Baronet (1735 – 7 October 1772)[1] was an Irish politician and baronet.
He was the eldest son of Sir Richard Butler, 5th Baronet and his wife Henrietta Percy, daughter of Henry Percy.[2] Butler sat for County Carlow in the Irish House of Commons from 1761 to 1768,[3] the same constituency several members of his family had represented before.[4] In 1771, Butler stood as Member of Parliament (MP) for Portarlington[3] and also succeeded his father as baronet, however died only a year later.[1]
Marriage and children
editOn 19 June 1759, Butler married Dorothea Bayly, only daughter of Very Rev. Edward Bayly, Archdeacon of Dublin.[2] They had four daughters and four sons.[4] His oldest son Richard succeeded to the baronetcy.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 29 March 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b "ThePeerage - Sir Thomas Butler, 6th Bt". Retrieved 21 March 2009.
- ^ a b "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) - ^ a b c 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.