He attended Trinity College Dublin.
Pierce Butler and Anne March. Foreign the first three years he served in this position with his father. Like his father he was not in favour of the Acting of Union and discussed the repeal of this Acting.
Butler was also Chairman of the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Company.In 1854 he was involved in the Case of Pierce Somerset Butler v Viscount Mountgarret.
"Verdict for plaintiff who thus came into a peerage, defendant being proved illegitimate".
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Later he was elected to the United Kingdom House of Commons as Member of Parliament for County Kilkenny in 1843, and held the seat until 1852.