Author: BUTT, George Medd
Biography:
BUTT, George Medd (1797-1860: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 18 Jan. 1797 to John Butt and his wife Frances Seller, and baptised in Sherborne, Dorset, on 25 Feb. 1797. Nothing is known about his education and there is no record of any university study. He was admitted to the Inner Temple on 10 Nov. 1818 and called on 25 June 1830. He was initiated into the Royal Clarence Lodge of freemasons in Frome, Somerset, on 29 July 1822; the logbook identifies him as of the Inner Temple, London. On 7 Sept. 1830 he married Frances Jane Fooks (or Ffooks) of Sherborne; they do not appear to have had children. He became a bencher and Queen’s Counsel on 2 May 1845. In 1847 he ran as a Conservative for the Weymouth seat in the general election but he lost by three votes. He ran again in 1853 and was successful; he held the seat until 1857. He was treasurer of the Inner Temple in 1859. He died at home at 17 Eaton Square, London, on 11 Nov. 1860 and was buried in the Brompton cemetery on 16 Nov. His will, proved on 25 Jan. 1861, left effects of under £30,000. He was survived by his wife who died in 1887. His name is sometimes incorrectly given as George Mead Butt. (ancestry.co.uk 10 Aug. 2023; Henry Adams, Adams’s Parliamentary Handbook [1853]; Charles Roger, Electoral Facts [1853]; Western Daily Press 14 Nov. 1860; Admission Records of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple online 8 Jan. 2025) SR
Other Names:
- G. M. Butt