Weeden Butler

Weeden Butler the younger (1773–1831) was an English cleric and author.

Life He was the eldest son of the Rev. Weeden Butler (1742–1823), and George Butler was his brother; he was educated by his father. In 1790 he entered Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1794, M.A. 1797. He was ordained deacon in 1796 and became curate at St. Michael, Crooked Lane in London; in 1797 he was ordained priest.

Butler became the afternoon lecturer of Charlotte Street Chapel in Pimlico; and evening lecturer of Brompton in 1811. He was presented to the rectory of Great Woolston, Buckinghamshire, in 1816.

Butler died in Cheyne Walk on 28 June 1831.

Family Butler married Annabella Dundas Oswald in Chislehurst, Kent, in 1805. Their eldest son, Weeden, born 1806, another son, and three daughters survived into adulthood.