James Edward William Theobald Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde, (5 October 1844 – 26 October 1919), styled Earl of Ossory until 1854, was an Irish nobleman and member of the
Butler dynasty
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.
Family
He was the son of
John Butler, 2nd Marquess of Ormonde
John Butler, 2nd Marquess of Ormonde, KP (24 August 1808 – 25 September 1854) was an Irish politician and peer.
Family
He was the son of James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde and Grace Louisa Staples. He married Frances Jane Paget, daughter ...
and Frances Jane Paget. From birth until the death of his father in 1854, he was styled as Earl of Ossory, one of his father's
subsidiary titles.
He was the last Marquess of Ormonde to live at
Kilkenny Castle
Kilkenny Castle ( ga, Caisleán Chill Chainnigh, IPA: kaʃlʲaːnˠˈçiːl̪ʲˈxan̪ʲiː is a castle in Kilkenny, Ireland built in 1195 to control a fording-point of the River Nore and the junction of several routeways. It was a symbol o ...
. He and his wife entertained
King Edward VII
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The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria a ...
and
Queen Alexandra
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at the castle in 1904.
Career
A Colonel in the Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles and Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron, he was Vice-Admiral of Leinster and a member of the
Privy Council of Ireland
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. He was awarded the
Order of the Crown of Prussia
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(first class). He was invested as a Knight,
Order of St Patrick in 1888. He held the office of Lord-Lieutenant of County Kilkenny between 1878 and 1919.
Lord Ormonde visited South Africa in 1903.
Lord Ormonde is recorded as having written to the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,
Benjamin Disraeli
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, regarding the restoration of the Dukedom of Ormonde in October 1868. Ormonde claimed that his grandfather,
James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde
James Wandesford Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde, (15 July 1774 – 18 May 1838) was an Irish nobleman and politician. He was the second son of John Butler, 17th Earl of Ormonde and Frances Susan Elizabeth Wandesford. He was born at Kilkenny c ...
(then 19th Earl of Ormond) had been advised by Lord Liverpool to apply for the restoration of the Dukedom, and that Lord Liverpool had advised him that in order to achieve this, he would first need to apply to be elevated from the rank of Earl to Marquess. An application was duly made, and James, 19th Earl of Ormond was granted the title Marquess of Ormonde. The 3rd Marquess believed that Lord Liverpool's loss of the Office of Prime Minister in 1827 frustrated this plan, and the 1st Marquess took no further action towards applying for the restoration of the Dukedom. The 3rd Marquess also alleged in his letter to Prime Minister Disraeli that his father,
John Butler, 2nd Marquess of Ormonde
John Butler, 2nd Marquess of Ormonde, KP (24 August 1808 – 25 September 1854) was an Irish politician and peer.
Family
He was the son of James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde and Grace Louisa Staples. He married Frances Jane Paget, daughter ...
had resolved not to pursue the restoration of the Dukedom of Ormonde unless another peer was also elevated to a Dukedom during his lifetime. Disraeli responded to the 3rd Marquess' letter on 27 October 1868, and expressed his sympathy with Lord Ormonde's desire to restore "the title of an illustrious ancestor". However, in his letter Disraeli implied that the political climate of the time did not render the creation, or restoration, of the Dukedom of Ormonde to be appropriate, noting that "the condition of the party
he Conversation Partyis now critical,".
Marriage and Children
On 2 February 1876, he married Lady Elizabeth Harriet Grosvenor, daughter of
Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster
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, widely regarded to be the richest peer in England in the second half of the 19th century. The Duke settled £15,000 on Lady Elizabeth upon her marriage. They had two daughters:
*Lady Beatrice Butler (1876–1952), married with Lt.-Gen.
Sir Reginald Pole-Carew
Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Pole-Carew, (1 May 1849 – 19 September 1924) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding 8th Division.
Background and family
Pole-Carew was the son of William Pole-Carew (1811–1888) by ...
, , had issue.
*
Lady Constance Mary Butler (1879–1949), died unmarried.
Upon his death, the title passed to his brother
Lord Arthur Butler due to his lack of a male heir. Elizabeth, Dowager Marchioness of Ormonde, was granted an annuity of £3,000 per year under his will. She had also inherited £35,000 upon the death of her father in 1899. Lord Ormonde's total estate (including entailed property) was valued at approximately £450,000
[The Times (London, England), Thursday, 12 Feb 1920; pg. 17; Issue 42332.]
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1844 births
1919 deaths
Knights of St Patrick
Lord-Lieutenants of Kilkenny
James
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