Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet of Cloughgrenan (a
townland near
Carlow
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The River Barrow flows through the town and forms the historic bounda ...
), (died c. February 1704)
was an
Irish baronet and politician.
He was the son of
Sir Edmund Butler, 2nd Baronet
Sir Edmund Butler, 2nd Baronet (died before 1653), of Cloughgrenan (townland near Carlow), was the son of Sir Thomas Butler, 1st Baronet and Anne Colclough. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 5 June 1637. He succeeded to the title after 1639. He ...
and Juliana Hyde, daughter of Bernard Hyde.
By 1650, he succeeded his father as baronet.
[ In 1670 and again in 1691,][ Butler was ]High Sheriff of Carlow
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. From 1692 until his death, he sat for County Carlow
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in the Irish House of Commons.
Marriage and issue
Butler married firstly Jane Boyle, daughter of the Right Reverend Richard Boyle, Bishop of Leighlin and Ferns,[ By his first wife, he had two sons.][ ]Pierce
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, the oldest of them, was a Member of Parliament for the same constituency
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his father had represented and succeeded to the baronetcy.
See also
* Butler dynasty
References
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1704 deaths
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Politicians from County Carlow
Irish MPs 1692–1693
Irish MPs 1695–1699
Irish MPs 1703–1713
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Carlow constituencies
High Sheriffs of Carlow
Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland
Year of birth missing
Butler baronets, of Cloughgrenan