BUTT

George Medd ( 2 son of John Butt of Sherborne ). b. Sherborne 1797; practised as special pleader; barrister I.T. 25 June 1830, bencher 1845, reader 1858, treasurer 1859; Q.C. 1845; M.P. for Weymouth 10 July 1852 to 21 March 1857. d. 17 Eaton square, London 11 Nov. 1860. BUTT, Isaac ( only son of Rev. Robert Butt R. of Stranorlar, co. Donegal ). b. Glenfin, co. Donegal 6 Sep. 1813; ed. at Royal school Raphoe and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1832, B.A. 1835, LL.B. 1836, M.A. and LLD. 1840; Whately profe or of political economy in Trin. coll. Dublin 1836–41; called to Irish bar Nov. 1838; alderman of Dublin 1840; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1859; carried on a counter agitation to that of the Repeal A ociation 1843; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1844; M.P. for Harwich 8 May 1852 to 1 July 1852, for Youghal 1852 to 1865 and for Limerick 1871 to death; leader of the Home Rule party 1871 to death; defended the Fenian prisoners 1865–9; pres. of Amnesty A ociation 1869; a founder of Dublin Univ. Mag. 1833, editor Aug. 1834 to 1838; established in Dublin a weekly newspaper called the Protestant Guardian afterwards amalgamated with the Warder ; author of Ovid’s Fasti translated 1833; The history of Italy 1860; A practical treatise on the new law of compensation to tenants in Ireland 1871; Home government for Ireland 1874. d. Roebuck cottage near Dundrum, co. Dublin 5 May 1879. Dublin Univ. Mag. xciii , 710–15 (1879); Sullivan’s New Ireland (1877), ii, 306–10, 319; Graphic iv , 485 (1871), portrait, xix , 508 (1879), portrait ; I.L.N. iv , 40 (1844), portrait .