Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet of Cloughgrenan (a townland near Carlow), (died c. February 1704) [1] was an Irish baronet and politician.
He was the son of Sir Edmund Butler, 2nd Baronet and Juliana Hyde, daughter of Bernard Hyde. [2] By 1650, he succeeded his father as baronet. [1] In 1670 and again in 1691, [2] Butler was High Sheriff of Carlow. From 1692 until his death, he sat for County Carlow in the Irish House of Commons. [3]
Butler married firstly Jane Boyle, daughter of the Right Reverend Richard Boyle, Bishop of Leighlin and Ferns, [4] and secondly Jane Pottinger, daughter of Captain Edward Pottinger and widow of John Reynolds, in July 1700. [2] By his first wife, he had two sons. [2] Pierce, the oldest of them, was a Member of Parliament for the same constituency his father had represented and succeeded to the baronetcy. [4]
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