Background
He was born at Liverpool to mercantile clerk Edward Butcher and Isabella Harrop.
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Career
He left school at a young age to work for Gibbs, Bright & Company He migrated to Australia in 1852 and went to the goldfields before clerking for wine merchant William Long, whose business he eventually inherited. He served on Woollahra council from 1877 to 1886 (mayor from 1881 to 1886) and on Sydney City Council from 1880 to 1883.
In 1882 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Paddington, serving until he retired in 1887.
He died at Waverley in 1888.
