Background
The title Earl of Ormond is one of the oldest titles in the peerages of the British Isles, having first been granted to James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond, who married a granddaughter of Edward I of England.
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James Butler
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He was the 7th and last holder of the title and the 25th holder of the title Earl of Ormond. Charles Butler was trained as an officer at Sandhurst and received a commission as a Lieutenant in the King"s Royal Rifle Corps. During the First World War, he was injured in a gas attack in France during 1916 and spent the rest of the war in hospital.
They had two daughters:
The Lady Constance Ann Butler (b 13 December 1940)
The Lady Violet Cynthia Lilah Butler (b 31 August 1946)
This marriage produced no children.
He was thenceforth known as The Most Honourable Charles Butler, 7th During the later years of his life, Lord Ormonde maintained an active role as President of the Butler Society. He made regular visits to the city of Kilkenny in Ireland, where the former principal seat of his family, Kilkenny Castle, was located.
Ownership of the Castle (which the Butler Family had not inhabited since 1935) had been transferred to the Town and People of Kilkenny by his predecessor, the 6th Marquess, in 1967. Lord Ormonde died on 25 October 1997 in Chicago, Illinois.
Without a male heir the marquessate became extinct in 1997, while the earldom is dormant.
The 18th Viscount Mountgarret, who succeeded his father in 2004 is understood to be the likely heir of the former Marquess" related title Earl of Ormond but has not successfully proven the claim.
