Richard Butler (1795/6–1862) was a Church of Ireland priest during the 19th century."Some Notices of the Castle and of the Abbies and other religious houses at Trim by The Rev Richard Butler Trim, County Meath; H. Griffith; 1840
Butler was born in County Meath, the son of Richard Butler of Granard. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin."Alumni Dublinenses Supplement p123: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860) Burtchaell, G.D/Sadlier, T.U: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 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."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p146: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 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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