CHARLES

See also:

• BUTLER
• BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
• BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
• BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
• BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
• CHARLES BUTLER (1750–1832)
• BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
• BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
• BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
• BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
• BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
• BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
• BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)

BUTLER (1750–1832)  , British lawyer and miscellaneous writer, was born in London on the 14th of August 1750• He was educated at Douai, and in 1775 entered at Lincoln's Inn . He had considerable practice as a conveyancer, and after the passing of the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791 was called to the bar . In 1832 he took silk, and was made a bencher of Lincoln's Inn . He died on the 2nd of June in the same year . His literary activity was enormous, and the number of his published works comprises about fifty volumes . The most important of them are the Reminiscences (182r–1827); Horae Biblicae (1797), which has passed through several editions; Horae Juridicae Subsecivae (1804); Book of the Roman Catholic Church (1825), which was directed against Southey and excited some controversy; lives of Erasmus, Grotius, Bossuet, Fenelon . He also edited and completed the Lives of the Saints of his uncle, Alban Butler, Fearne's Essay on Contingent Remainders and Hargrave's edition of Coke upon Littleton's Laws of England (1775)• A complete list of Butler's works is contained in Joseph Gillow's Bibliographical Dictionary of English Catholics, vol. i. pp . 357-364 .