Lord Theobald Butler


Lord Theobald Butler was a British clergyman who was the youngest son of John Butler, 2nd Marquess of Ormonde and his wife, Frances Jane Paget. At the time of his birth, he was the fourth son of Lord and Lady Ormonde, and he was christened James Theobald Bagot John Butler. As a younger son of a marquess, he received the honorific prefix of Lord from birth.
He is historically significant as being one of the last male members of the ancient House of Ormonde. He was the brother of James Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde and Arthur Butler, 4th Marquess of Ormonde, the uncle of George Butler, 5th Marquess of Ormonde and Arthur Butler, 6th Marquess of Ormonde, and the father of Charles Butler, 7th Marquess of Ormonde.

Life and marriage

He attended Cambridge University and was the Rector of Ulcombe, Kent, from 1898 to 1923. In 1919, he was made the beneficiary of a £275 annual charge on the Ormonde Estates in the will of his eldest brother, James Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde.
He married Annabella Gordon, daughter of clergyman Dr Cosmo Reid Gordon, and had five children: