Richard Butler (Irish priest)

Richard Butler
Richard Butler, seated portrait reading
Born	c.1796
Died	1862
Occupation	Anglican priest
Known for	Irish history
Title	Reverend

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

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 (1888–1891). "Butler, Richard (3)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – 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.