George Slade Butler (1821–1882) was an English lawyer and

antiquary An antiquarian or antiquary () is an fan (person), aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past. More specifically, the term is used for those who study history with particular attention to ancient artifact (archaeology), artifac ...

Life

Butler was the son of Richard Weeden Butler, a surgeon in practice at

Rye, Sussex is a small town and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England, two miles from the sea at the confluence of three rivers: the Rother, the Tillingham and the Brede. An important member of the mediaeval Cinque Ports confederatio ...

, by his third wife, Rhoda Jane, only daughter of Daniel Slade, of London and Rye. Born at Rye on 4 March 1821, he was educated at a private school at

Brighton Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...

. He was admitted a

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Hilary term Hilary term is the second academic term of the University of Oxfordcounty court A county court is a court based in or with a jurisdiction covering one or more counties, which are administrative divisions (subnational entities) within a country, not to be confused with the medieval system of ''county courts'' held by the high ...

. He was elected a

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in March 1862, and died in Rye on 11 April 1882.

Works

Butler's ''Topographica Sussexiana'' originally appeared in the ''Collections'' of the

Sussex Archaeological Society The Sussex Archaeological Society, founded in 1846, is one of the oldest county-based archaeological societies in the UK. A registered self-funding charity whose charitable aims are to enable people to enjoy, learn about and have access to the he ...

, and was later reprinted in one volume; it is a bibliography listing of the publications relating to the county of

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

. He also contributed papers on the antiquities of Rye to the same journal.

References

Attribution 1821 births 1882 deaths English antiquarians 19th-century antiquarians Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London 19th-century English lawyers {{England-law-bio-stub