Weeden Butler the younger


Weeden Butler the younger was an English cleric and author.

Life

He was the eldest son of the Rev. Weeden Butler, 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 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.
After having for 19 years acted as classical assistant in his father's school, in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, Butler took it over on his father's retirement in 1814. In that year Isambard Kingdom Brunel became a pupil there.
Butler died in Cheyne Walk on 28 June 1831.

Works

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