Sir Pierce Butler, 4th Baronet of Cloughgrenan (a

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near

Carlow Carlow ( ; ) is the county town of County Carlow, in the south-east of Ireland, from Dublin. At the 2016 census, it had a combined urban and rural population of 24,272. The River Barrow flows through the town and forms the historic bounda ...

), PC (Ire) (1670 – 17 April 1732) was an

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politician and baronet. He was the eldest son of

Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet of Cloughgrenan (a townland near Carlow), (died c. February 1704) was an Irish baronet and politician. He was the son of Sir Edmund Butler, 2nd Baronet and Juliana Hyde, daughter of Bernard Hyde. By 1650, he succe ...

and his wife Jane Boyle, daughter of the Right Reverend Richard Boyle, Bishop of Leighlin and Ferns. In 1691, Butler was educated at

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

and

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. In 1704, he succeeded his father as baronet. Butler represented Carlow County in the

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from 1703 to 1715. In 1712, he was invested to the

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Marriage

In December 1697, he married Anne Galliard, daughter of Joshua Galliard. Butler died without male issue and thus the baronetcy went to his nephew

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Politicians from County Carlow Irish MPs 1703–1713 Irish MPs 1713–1714 Members of Lincoln's Inn 17th-century Irish people Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Carlow constituencies Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Butler baronets, of Cloughgrenan Alumni of Trinity College Dublin

Marriage

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