Joseph Butterworth
Joseph Butterworth (1770 – 30 June 1826) was an English law bookseller and politician.
Life
He was son of the Rev.
Baptist minister in Coventry, where he was born. At an early age he went to London, where he learned the law-book trade, and founded a large and lucrative establishment in Fleet Street
, in which his nephew Henry Butterworth later worked.
Butterworth's house became a resort of the leading philanthropists of the day. There
Lord Liverpool, John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth, William Wilberforce and Zachary Macaulay had discussions, and the first meetings of the British and Foreign Bible Society
were held. Butterworth liberally supported many philanthropic and Christian institutions.
He was M.P. for
Wesleyan, and in August 1819 was appointed general treasurer of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, a post he retained until his death. He died at his house in Bedford Square
, London, 30 June 1826, aged 56.
Works
He was author of A General Catalogue of Law Books (1801).
References
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lowther, William Boswell (1886). "Butterworth, Joseph". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 08. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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