Walter Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde, KP (5 February 1770 – 10 August 1820) was an Irish peer and politician. Partly to sustain his extravagant lifestyle, Walter gave up his hereditary right to the grant of the prisage of the wines of Ireland for an enormous sum of money. The right had been made to the 4th Chief Butler of Ireland by Edward I of England. Between 1789 and 1796, he sat for Kilkenny County in the Irish House of Commons. He served as Governor and Custos Rotulorum of County Kilkenny and was a Privy Counsellor in Ireland. He was also Colonel of the Kilkenny Militia.

Family

He was the son of

John Butler, 17th Earl of Ormonde John Butler, 17th Earl of Ormonde, 10th Earl of Ossory (1740–1795) was an Irish peer and Member of Parliament (MP). He became a Protestant in 1764. He was an Irish MP, representing Gowran between 1776 and 1783, and Kilkenny City between 17 ...

and Frances Susan Elizabeth Wandesford. He married Anna Maria Catherine Clarke, daughter of Joseph Hart Pryce Clarke, on 17 March 1805. She was the heiress, as niece to

Godfrey Bagnall Clarke Godfrey Bagnall Clarke (c.1742-26 December 1774), of Sutton Scarsdale Hall in Derbyshire, was a British Member of Parliament, representing Derbyshire. He was the eldest son of Godfrey Clarke and his wife Anne, the daughter and heiress of German ...

, to the

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estate. As they had no children, the Marquessate became extinct; the Earldom of Ormonde, however, devolved upon his brother

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, who subsequently became first Marquess of Ormonde of the second creation, and was made Baron Butler of Llanthony in the

Peerage of the United Kingdom The Peerage of the United Kingdom is one of the five Peerages in the United Kingdom. It comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Acts of Union 1800, Acts of Union in 1801, when it replaced the ...

. Walter left debts of some £450,000 on his death, and as a result The Derbyshire properties were sold, and Richard Arkwright junior reunited

Sutton Scarsdale Hall Sutton Scarsdale Hall is a Grade I listed Georgian ruined stately home in Sutton Scarsdale, just outside Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Estate history The original Hall formed part of a Saxon estate owned by Wulfric Spott, who died in 1002 and left ...

with the estate.Leicester Chronicle, ‘Sale of the Ormonde Estates’, Sat 27 November 1824, page 4.

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1770 births 1820 deaths

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Irish MPs 1783–1790 Irish MPs 1790–1797 Knights of St Patrick Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kilkenny constituencies Members of the Privy Council of Ireland

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