Denis Anthony Brian Butler, 9th Earl of Lanesborough

Major Denis Anthony Brian Butler, 9th Earl of Lanesborough (28 October 1918 – 21 December 1998), was an Anglo-Irish soldier, landowner and peer, as Earl of Lanesborough from 1950. He was also 10th Viscount Lanesborough and 11th Baron Newtown-Butler.

Life At the time of Lanesborough's birth, the family's Irish seat was Lanesborough Lodge, located on the Lanesborough estate at Quivvy, a townland just outside Belturbet, in County Cavan. The lodge and demesne were located on a small peninsula on the shores of Upper Lough Erne, directly opposite County Fermanagh. Lanesborough Lodge was burned to the ground in the early 1920s, and the Butler family sold the estate shortly afterwards.

The young Lanesborough was educated at Stowe School.

In 1950, Lanesborough inherited from his father, the 8th Earl, Swithland Hall, Leicestershire and an estate of . However, the death duties owed on the inheritance resulted in the sale of most of the estate.

He was appointed as a Justice of the Peace for Leicestershire and in 1962 as a Deputy Lieutenant of the county.