Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Butler, John (1)

by Joseph Foster

Butler, John, s. James, of Hamburg, Germany, pleb. University Coll., matric. 10 May, 1733, aged 15; B.C.L. 1746, D.C.L. 1752, minister of Great Yarmouth 1758, preb. of Winchester 1760, rector of Everley, Wilts, chaplain to George III., archdeacon of Surrey 1769, bishop of Oxford 1777-88, of Hereford 1788 until his death, 10th Dec., 1802. See Dictionary of National Biography.