Information AboutCharles Butler |
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He was educated at Douai , and in 1775 entered at Lincoln's Inn . He had considerable practice as a conveyancer, and after the passing of the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791 was called to the bar. In 1832 he took silk, and was made a bencher of Lincoln's Inn. His literary activity was enormous, and the number of his published works comprises about fifty volumes. The most important of them are:
He also edited and completed the ''Lives of the Saints'' of his uncle, Alban Butler , Fearne 's ''Essay on Contingent Remainders'' and Hargrave's edition of Coke upon Littleton 's ''Laws of England'' (1775). A complete list of Butler's works is contained in Joseph Gillow 's ''Bibliographical Dictionary of English Catholics'', vol. i. pp. 357-364. EXTERNAL LINKS -- Another Charles Butler ( 1565 – 1647 ) was an English Author , Writer and Philologist . Another Charles Butler Born 1963-??? Fiction writer and UWE Teacher. |
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