Sir Richard Butler, 5th Baronet (1699 – 25 November 1771) was an Irish politician and baronet.

Early life

He was the eldest son of James Butler and Frances ( Abney) Parker Butler. His mother was the widow of Sir John Parker, who lived at Fermoyle in

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.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.'' Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 612. His father was the second son of Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet and his mother was a daughter of Sir

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, MP for

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Career

Butler represented

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in the Irish House of Commons from 1730 to 1761. In 1732, he succeeded his uncle

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as baronet.

Personal life

In 1728, he married Henrietta Percy (1701–1794), daughter of Sir Henry Percy and Eliza ( Paul) Percy. Her grandfather was Sir

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, Lord Mayor of London in 1699.George Edward Cokayne, editor, ''The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes'' (); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume II, page 258. Together, they had four sons and six daughters, including: * Judith Butler (1730–1775), who married Thomas Tennant, Jr. *

Sir Thomas Butler, 6th Baronet Sir Thomas Butler, 6th Baronet (1735 – 7 October 1772) was an Irish politician and baronet. He was the eldest son of Sir Richard Butler, 5th Baronet and his wife Henrietta Percy, daughter of Henry Percy. Butler sat for Carlow County in th ...

(1735–1772), MP for

and Portarlington who married Dorothea Bayly, only daughter of Very Rev.

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, Archdeacon of Dublin. * Ann Eliza Butler (1736–1764), who married William Steuart, son of Col. Hon. John Steuart (nephew and heir of William Steuart), in . * James Butler (1736–1787), a captain in the 1st Regiment of Horse who died unmarried. * Henrietta Butler (b. 1738), who married Nicholas Gordon. * Jane Butler (1741–1802), who married Nicholas Trench, son of Richard Trench. * Eleanor Butler (b. 1742), who married Edward Eustace, son of James Eustace, in 1765. * Pierce Butler (1744–1822), a soldier, Founding Father, signatory of the U.S. Constitution, and South Carolina's inaugural Senator in the U.S. Senate. * William Butler of Broomville (1747–1789), who married Henrietta Nixon, daughter of Abraham Nixon. Sir Richard died on 25 November 1771 and was succeeded by his eldest son Thomas.

Descendants

His great-grandson, hereditary and absentee plantation owner Pierce Mease Butler, authorized The Great Slave Auction of 1859 to pay gambling debts.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Butler, Sir Richard, 5th Baronet 1699 births 1771 deaths 17th-century Irish people Irish MPs 1727–1760 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Carlow constituencies Politicians from County Carlow

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Butler baronets, of Cloughgrenan