Sir Richard Butler, 7th Baronet

Sir Richard Butler, 7th Baronet (14 July 1761 – 16 January 1817)[1] was an Anglo-Irish politician.

He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Butler, 6th Baronet and his wife Dorothea Bayly, daughter of Very Rev. Edward Bayly, Archdeacon of Dublin.[2] In 1772, he succeeded his father as baronet.[1] He was appointed High Sheriff of Carlow for 1784.[3]

Butler sat for County Carlow in the Irish House of Commons from 1783 until 1790 and again from 1796 until the Act of Union in 1801.[4] Subsequently, he represented County Carlow in the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the 1802 general election.[5]

On 23 August 1782, Butler married Sarah Maria Newenham, only daughter of Thomas Worth Newenham.[6] They had at least a daughter and three sons.[2] His grandson, William C. Butler (1844–1914) played football for England against a Scottish XI in two unofficial internationals in 1870 and 1871.[7][8]

Butler died, aged 55 and was succeeded by his eldest son Thomas.[6]

References
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  3. "No. 12525". The London Gazette. 6 March 1784. p. 3.
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  6. 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.
  7. "England 1 Scotland 1". England Unofficial Matches. 5 March 1870. Archived from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2011.
  8. "England 1 Scotland 1". England Unofficial Matches. 25 February 1871. Archived from the original on 9 September 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2011.
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