Family and Education
b. c. 1513, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Butler by his 1st w. Cicely, da. of Piers or Peter Legh of Lyme, Cheshire. m. (1) by 1543, Eleanor, da. of John Huddleston of Sawston, Cambs., 1s. 3da.; (2) c.1560, Thomasina (d.1573), s.p.; (3) 1574, Anne, da. of Edward Norris of Speke, Lancs. s.p. suc. fa. 1549. Kntd. 1577.DL7/9/22; Flower’s Vis. Lancs. (Chetham Soc. lxxxi), 106; Vis. Cambs. (Harl. Soc. xli), 27; W. Beamont, Annals of Lords of Warrington (Chetham Soc. lxxxvii), 454, 482; Stow, Survey of London (1598), 407; Rylands Eng. ms 298, f. 699.
Offices Held
?Page of the chamber by 1541; ?gent. pens. by 1544; commr. eccles. causes, diocese of Chester 1562; j.p. Lancs. by 1568, sheriff 1569–70.
Main residences: Bewsey; Warrington, Lancs.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Web Title
BUTLER, Thomas (c.1513-79)
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Oxford 1644
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