BUTLER, Edward (?1686-1745), of Burleigh Park, Leics.

When Butler, an extreme Tory, was installed president of Magdalen in August 1722, an Oxford Jacobite reported that he made a speech ‘in which there was shewed much courage and honesty’,Hearne, Colls. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) vii. 388-9; HMC Portland, vii. 321. i.e. Jacobitism. A year later he married Dr. Sacheverell’s sister-in-law, a lady of large fortune, who brought him Burleigh Park.Hearne, viii. 97. Succeeding William Bromley jun. as Member for the University, he voted against the Government in all recorded divisions. He died 29 Oct. 1745.