Background
Butt was born and christened in Lichfield in 1741.
Butt was born and christened in Lichfield in 1741.
He graduated and took a masters in 1768 but he did not become a Doctor of Divinity until 1793. He was taken on by Sir Edward Winnington who employed him as a tutor for his son and after he had him accompany him to the same college that Butt had graduated from in Oxford.
He became George III"s Chaplain-in-Ordinary. He went to Westminster School and then to college in Oxford. Butt"s first job was as rector at Leigh in Staffordshire.
This was a position arranged by Sir Walter Bagot.
After that Winnington found Butt a rector"s job at Stanford-on-Teme and built him a rectory. This transformed his poor financial position.
Mary Martha was born in 1775 and Lucy Lyttelton was born in 1781. In 1778 he was rewarded with the living of the vicarage of Newchurch on the Isle of Wight.
This was a gift of the Bishop of Bristol, Thomas Newton, and in 1783 he exchanged this living for a similar one at Notgrove in Gloucestershire.
He also became George III"s Chaplain-in-Ordinary in 1783. In 1787 he was chosen to be the vicar of Kidderminster which was a job he did in addition to his other appointments. He briefly moved there, but then returned to Stanford and commuted where necessary.
Butt died in Stanford-on-Teme in 1795.