Weeden Butler the younger

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Weeden Butler the younger (1773–1831) was an English cleric and author.

Life

He was the eldest son of the Rev.

St. Michael, Crooked Lane in London; in 1797 he was ordained priest.[1][2]

Butler became afternoon lecturer of Charlotte Street Chapel in

Great Woolston, Buckinghamshire, in 1816.[1]

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.[1] In that year Isambard Kingdom Brunel became a pupil there.[3]

Butler died in Cheyne Walk on 28 June 1831.[1]

Works

Butler published:[1]

  • Bagatelles; or miscellaneous productions, consisting of Original Poetry and Translations, London, 1795
  • Prospect of the Political Relations which subsist between the French Republic and the Helvetic Body, 1794, translated from the French of François-Rodolphe de Weiss, Coup-d'oeil sur les relations politiques entre la République française et le Corps Hélvetique (1793)
  • The Wrongs of Unterwalden, 1799
  • Zimao, the African, 1800 and 1807
  • The Warning Voice. A Sermon Preached at Charlotte Street Chapel, Pimlico ... November 19, 1817 on the death of Princess Charlotte of Wales[4]

Family

Butler married Annabella Dundas Oswald in Chislehurst, Kent, in 1805. Their eldest son, Weeden, born 1806, another son, and three daughters survived into adulthood.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Butler, Weeden (1773-1831)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 8. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ^ "Butler, Weeden (BTLR790W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3773. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  4. ^ Weeden Butler the younger (1817). The Warning Voice. A Sermon Preached at Charlotte Street Chapel, Pimlico ... November 19, 1817 (on Occasion of the Death of the Princess Charlotte). London.
  5. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4215. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Butler, Weeden (1773-1831)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 8. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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