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<div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">English bishop and controversialist</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other people named John Butler, see <a href="/wiki/John_Butler_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="John Butler (disambiguation)">John Butler (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Butler_British_Museum.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/John_Butler_British_Museum.jpg/220px-John_Butler_British_Museum.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/John_Butler_British_Museum.jpg/330px-John_Butler_British_Museum.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/John_Butler_British_Museum.jpg/440px-John_Butler_British_Museum.jpg 2x" data-file-width="577" data-file-height="720" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Johannis_Butler.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Johannis_Butler.jpg/220px-Johannis_Butler.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Johannis_Butler.jpg/330px-Johannis_Butler.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Johannis_Butler.jpg/440px-Johannis_Butler.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3418" data-file-height="2279" /></a><figcaption>Memorial in <a href="/wiki/Hereford_Cathedral" title="Hereford Cathedral">Hereford Cathedral</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b>John Butler</b> (1717–1802) was an English bishop and <a href="/wiki/Controversialist" class="mw-redirect" title="Controversialist">controversialist</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Butler_(bishop)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Butler was born at <a href="/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a>. As a young man he was a tutor in the family of Mr Child, a banker. He was not a member of either <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Cambridge University">Cambridge</a> or <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University">Oxford University</a>, but in later life he received the degree of LL.D. from Cambridge.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He married first a lady who kept a school at <a href="/wiki/Westminster" title="Westminster">Westminster</a>; his second wife was the sister and coheiress of Sir Charles Vernon, of <a href="/wiki/Farnham" title="Farnham">Farnham</a>, Surrey, and this marriage improved his social standing.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Having taken orders, he became a popular preacher in London, and in 1754 he published a sermon, preached at <a href="/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral" title="St Paul's Cathedral">St Paul's Cathedral</a> before the <a href="/wiki/Corporation_of_the_Sons_of_the_Clergy" class="mw-redirect" title="Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy">Sons of the Clergy</a>. In the title-page, he is described as chaplain to the <a href="/wiki/Princess_Augusta_of_Saxe-Gotha" title="Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha">Princess Dowager of Wales</a>. In the same year, he also published a sermon preached before the trustees of the <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Hospital" title="Westminster Hospital">Public Infirmary</a>. He was installed as a <a href="/wiki/Prebendary" title="Prebendary">prebendary</a> of <a href="/wiki/Winchester" title="Winchester">Winchester</a> in 1760. In the title-page of a sermon preached before the House of Commons at <a href="/wiki/St._Margaret%27s,_Westminster" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Margaret's, Westminster">St. Margaret's, Westminster</a>, on the occasion of a <a href="/w/index.php?title=General_fast&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="General fast (page does not exist)">general fast</a> in 1758, he is described as minister of <a href="/wiki/Great_Yarmouth" title="Great Yarmouth">Great Yarmouth</a> and chaplain to the Princess Dowager.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite this relationship to the princess's household, in 1762 he issued a political pamphlet addressed to the 'Cocoa Tree' (the Cocoa-Tree Club was associated with the Tories)<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and signed 'A Whig.' In this pamphlet, which ran to three editions, he bitterly attacked <a href="/wiki/John_Stuart,_3rd_Earl_of_Bute" title="John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute">John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute</a> and the conduct of his ministry since the accession of <a href="/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="George III of the United Kingdom">George III</a>. He was appointed chaplain to <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hayter" title="Thomas Hayter">Thomas Hayter</a>, received the living of <a href="/wiki/Everley" class="mw-redirect" title="Everley">Everley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wiltshire" title="Wiltshire">Wiltshire</a>, and on the recommendation of <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Onslow" title="Arthur Onslow">Arthur Onslow</a> was made one of the king's chaplains. In 1769 he was made <a href="/wiki/Archdeacon_of_Surrey" title="Archdeacon of Surrey">archdeacon of Surrey</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/American_War_of_Independence" class="mw-redirect" title="American War of Independence">American War of Independence</a> he issued a number of political pamphlets, under the signature of 'Vindex,' in which he strongly supported the policy of <a href="/wiki/Lord_North" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord North">Lord North</a>. In 1777, he was appointed <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Oxford" title="Bishop of Oxford">Bishop of Oxford</a>, being consecrated at Lambeth on 25 May. Butler had now adopted strong <a href="/wiki/Tory" title="Tory">Tory</a> principles, and on 30 January 1787 preached before the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a> about the death of <a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_England" title="Charles I of England">Charles I</a>. While bishop of Oxford he helped <a href="/wiki/Carl_Gottfried_Woide" title="Carl Gottfried Woide">Carl Gottfried Woide</a> to transcribe the <a href="/wiki/Codex_Alexandrinus" title="Codex Alexandrinus">Codex Alexandrinus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1788, he was translated to the <a href="/wiki/Bishopric_of_Hereford" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishopric of Hereford">bishopric of Hereford</a>. In 1786, a great fire burnt down the medieval west end of the cathedral nave; Butler was responsible for a fore-shortened modern reconstruction. He also installed a private chapel for the bishop's entourage in the palace, which is adjoined by the cloisters to the cathedral.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He died in 1802, in his eighty-fifth year, leaving no children.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Butler_(bishop)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>His published works are: </p> <ul><li><i>An Answer to the Cocoa Tree, by a Whig</i>, 1762.</li> <li><i>A Consultation on the Subject of a Standing Army</i>, 1763.</li> <li><i>Serious Consideration on the Character of the Present Administration</i>.</li> <li><i>Account of the Character of the Rt. Hon. H. B. Legge.</i></li> <li>Sermons and charges of various dates, republished in a collective edition, 1801.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Butler_(bishop)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-DNB-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-DNB_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DNB_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DNB_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DNB_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DNB_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DNB_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Butler, John (1717-1802)"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Butler,_John_(1717-1802)">"Butler, John (1717-1802)" </a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Dictionary of National Biography</a></i>. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Butler%2C+John+%281717-1802%29&rft.btitle=Dictionary+of+National+Biography&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Smith%2C+Elder+%26+Co&rft.date=1885%2F1900&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Butler+%28bishop%29" class="Z3988"></span> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Documentation at <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/GetRecord/SHCOL_189">http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/GetRecord/SHCOL_189</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090526054324/http://www.jasa.net.au/london/clubs.htm">"Gentlemen's Clubs - Regency London"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jasa.net.au/london/clubs.htm">the original</a> on 26 May 2009<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">10 May</span> 2009</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Gentlemen%27s+Clubs+-+Regency+London&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jasa.net.au%2Flondon%2Fclubs.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Butler+%28bishop%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJohn_Britton1836" class="citation book cs1">John Britton (1836). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=vjpAAAAAYAAJ"><i>Winchester, Lichfield, and Hereford</i></a>. M. A. 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title="Tidhelm">Tidhelm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wulfhelm_of_Hereford" title="Wulfhelm of Hereford">Wulfhelm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfric_(bishop_of_Hereford)" title="Ælfric (bishop of Hereford)">Ælfric</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athulf" title="Athulf">Athulf</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">High Medieval</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelstan_(bishop_of_Hereford)" title="Æthelstan (bishop of Hereford)">Æthelstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leofgar_of_Hereford" title="Leofgar of Hereford">Leofgar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ealdred_(archbishop_of_York)" title="Ealdred (archbishop of York)">Ealdred</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_of_Lorraine" title="Walter of Lorraine">Walter of Lorraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_the_Lotharingian" title="Robert the Lotharingian">Robert de Losinga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerard_(archbishop_of_York)" title="Gerard (archbishop of York)">Gerard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_(larderer)" title="Roger (larderer)">Roger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reynelm" title="Reynelm">Reynelm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_de_Clive" title="Geoffrey de Clive">Geoffrey de Clive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_de_Capella" title="Richard de Capella">Richard de Capella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_de_Bethune" title="Robert de Bethune">Robert de Bethune</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Foliot" title="Gilbert Foliot">Gilbert Foliot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_of_Melun" title="Robert of Melun">Robert of Melun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Foliot" title="Robert Foliot">Robert Foliot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_de_Vere" title="William de Vere">William de Vere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giles_de_Braose" title="Giles de Braose">Giles de Braose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_de_Mapenor" title="Hugh de Mapenor">Hugh de Mapenor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Foliot" title="Hugh Foliot">Hugh Foliot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_de_Maidstone" class="mw-redirect" title="Ralph de Maidstone">Ralph de Maidstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_(bishop_elect)" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael (bishop elect)">Michael</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_of_Aigueblanche" title="Peter of Aigueblanche">Peter of Aigueblanche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_de_Breton" title="John de Breton">John de Breton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_de_Cantilupe" title="Thomas de Cantilupe">Thomas de Cantilupe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Swinefield" title="Richard Swinefield">Richard Swinefield</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Late Medieval</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adam_Orleton" title="Adam Orleton">Adam Orleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Charlton_(bishop)" title="Thomas Charlton (bishop)">Thomas Charleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Trilleck" title="John Trilleck">John Trilleck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_de_Charleton" title="Lewis de Charleton">Lewis de Charleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Courtenay" title="William Courtenay">William Courtenay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Gilbert_(bishop_of_St_David%27s)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Gilbert (bishop of St David's)">John Gilbert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Trevenant" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Trevenant">Thomas Trevenant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Mascall" title="Robert Mascall">Robert Mascall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Lacey" title="Edmund Lacey">Edmund Lacey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Polton" title="Thomas Polton">Thomas Polton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Spofford" title="Thomas Spofford">Thomas Spofford</a></li> <li><a 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