About Richard Butler
Lived 1794 – 1862 (aged 67–68). Richard Butler was a British catholic priest and anglican priest.
Richard Butler (1795/6–1862) was a Church of Ireland priest during the 19th century.
Butler was born in County Meath, the son of Richard Butler of Granard. He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford in 1813, aged 17, and graduated B.A. there in 1817. He was vicar of Trim, and Dean of Clonmacnoise from 1847. He married Harriet Edgeworth (1801–1889), sister of Maria Edgeworth.
Works Annalium Hiberniæ chronicon, ad annum MCCCXLIX (1849), John Clyn and Thady Dowling, ed. Richard Butler
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Dean of Clonmacnoise
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Richard Butler was born in 1794.
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Richard Butler died in 1862.
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Richard Butler was a catholic priest and anglican priest.
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Richard Butler was British.
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· DBpedia: Richard Butler (Irish priest)
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