Walter Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde

Chivalric Order Member

1770 – 1820

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Who was Walter Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde?

Walter Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde KP was an Irish peer and politician. Partly to sustain his extravagant lifestyle, Walter gave up his hereditary right to the grant of the prisage of the wines of Ireland for an enormous sum of money. The right had been made to the 4th Chief Butler of Ireland by Edward I of England. Between 1789 and 1796, he sat for Kilkenny County in the Irish House of Commons.

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Born
Feb 5, 1770
Died
Aug 10, 1820

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on July 23, 2013

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