Richard Butler (Irish priest)

Richard Butler (1795/6–1862) was a Church of Ireland priest during the 19th century.[1][2]

Richard Butler
Seated engraved portrait reading on a chair Richard Butler
Richard Butler, seated portrait reading
Bornc.1796
Died1862
OccupationAnglican priest
Known forIrish history
TitleReverend

Butler was born in County Meath, the son of Richard Butler of Granard.[1] He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[3] He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford in 1813, aged 17, and graduated B.A. there in 1817. He was vicar of Trim, and Dean of Clonmacnoise from 1847.[1][4] He married Harriet Edgeworth (1801–1889), sister of Maria Edgeworth.[5]

Works

  • Annalium Hiberniæ chronicon, ad annum MCCCXLIX (1849), John Clyn and Thady Dowling, ed. Richard Butler[6]

References

  1. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Butler, Richard (3)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co via Wikisource.
  2. "Some Notices of the Castle and of the Abbies and other religious houses at Trim by The Rev Richard Butler Trim, County Meath; H. Griffith; 1840
  3. "Alumni Dublinenses Supplement p123: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860) Burtchaell, G.D/Sadlier, T.U: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  4. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton,H. p146: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  5. Friedman, Jean E.; Schroeder-Lein, Glenna R. (2001). Ways of Wisdom: Moral Education in the Early National Period. University of Georgia Press. p. 247. ISBN 978-0-8203-2252-0.
  6. Clyn, John; Dowling, Thady (1849). Annalium Hiberniæ chronicon, ad annum MCCCXLIX. Irish Archaeological Society.


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