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Author: Butler, William Joseph

Biography:

BUTLER, William Joseph (1797-1869: ancestry.co.uk)

He was born on 14 May 1797 and baptised on 29 Sept. at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, the third of at least seven children of Joseph Butler and his wife Sarah Marsh, who had married at Holborn, London, in 1793. He was educated at St. John’s College Cambridge (matric. 1815, BA 1820, MA 1824) and entered the church. He was ordained deacon (1823) and priest (1825). He was Rector of St. Nicholas, Nottingham (1825-66) and Rector of Thwing-on-the-Wolds, near Bridlington, Yorkshire (1828-69). He married the daughter of a local surgeon, Lucy Attenburrow, on 18 Apr. 1827, at St. Nicholas, Nottingham. They had at least three sons and a daughter. In the 1841 and 1851 censuses, they were recorded as living at Castle Gate, Nottingham. He appears to have moved in old age to Woodford, Essex. His wife, Lucy, died there, on 8 Feb. 1867. He died there on 5 Sept. 1869, aged 73. Roche Abbey, and Other Poems (1835), published by subscription in the hope of raising funds for a village Sunday school, also includes verse tales, literary essays, and his “Introductory Lecture” delivered on 6 Dec. 1824 at the first meeting of the Nottingham Literary Society. His printer, John Hicklin, was Secretary. He also published on local and historical topics: Testimony of History (1838, on the OT prophecies) and The History and Antiquities of Laughton-en-le-Morthen . . . Roche Abbey (1856). (ancestry.co.uk 22 Feb. 2023; findmypast.co.uk 22 Feb. 2023; CCEd 22 Feb. 2023; Nottingham Journal 21 Apr. 1827; Morning Advertiser 13 Feb. 1867, 11 Sept. 1869) AA

 

Other Names:

  • the Rev. W. J. Butler
 

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