Pierce Somerset Butler

For other people named Pierce Butler, see Pierce Butler (disambiguation).

Pierce Somerset Butler (26 January 1801 – 28 July 1865) was an Irish politician in the United Kingdom House of Commons.

He was the son of Hon. Pierce Butler and Anne March. He married Jessy Anne Bryan on 3 February 1835 in London at St George's, Hanover Square.[1] They had two daughters.

He attended Trinity College Dublin.[2] Later he was elected to the United Kingdom House of Commons as Member of Parliament for County Kilkenny[3] in 1843, and held the seat until 1852.[4] For the first three years he served in this position with his father. Like his father he was not in favour of the Act of Union and discussed the repeal of this Act.[5]

Butler was also Chairman of the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Company.[6] In 1854 he was involved in the Case of Pierce Somerset Butler v Viscount Mountgarret. "Verdict for plaintiff who thus came into a peerage, defendant being proved illegitimate"[7][8]

  1. ^ Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Thomas Hood, Theodore Edward Hook, William Harrison Ainsworth (1835). The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 43. Henry Colburn, 1835.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Stephen Brown; Warren McDougall (30 November 2011). The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 2: Enlightenment and Expansion 1707-1800. Edinburgh University Press, 30 Nov 2011 - Literary Criticism - 688 pages. ISBN 9780748650958.
  3. ^ "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)" George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p122: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  4. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 2 )
  5. ^ Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 51. H.M. Stationery Office, 1843 - Great Britain. 1843.
  6. ^ "The King's Co. Chronicle Vol. 1 No. 3 Wednesday, Oct 6th, 1845". Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  7. ^ "Victorian Trials – 1850-1859". 20 May 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  8. ^ Pierce Somerset Butler, Pierce Somerset Butler (hon.) (1854). "In the Exchequer, Dublin. Pierce Somerset Butler against ... Henry Edmund viscount Mountgarrett. Short-hand writers' notes of proceedings at the trial". Retrieved 16 February 2016.