Author: BUTT, George
Biography:
BUTT, George (1791-c.1869: ancestry.co.uk)
The son of John Butt and his wife Martha Harding, he was born on 25 Mar. and baptised in Salisbury on 28 Apr. 1791. Very little is known about his life but he was a widower living in Bristol and working as a solicitor when he married Mary Augusta Le Chevalier on 26 Oct. 1839. No record of an earlier marriage has been located. They had six daughters and two sons. In the 1851 Census his occupation is given as “solicitor’s managing clerk” and the family was living in Park Lane, Chelsea, London. The 1861 Census has them living in Dover, Kent. George Butt had died by the time of the 1871 Census and he may have been the man of that name who was buried at St. Marylebone, London, on 20 May 1869. His other publications are The Poll of the Freeholders of the County of Wilts, for Electing a Knight of the Shire (1819 and Suggestions as to the Conduct and Management of a County Contested Election (1826). (ancestry.co.uk 13 Aug. 2023; findmypast.co.uk 13 Aug. 2023)