James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde

James Wandesford Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde, KP (15 July 1777 – 18 May 1838) was an Irish nobleman and politician. He was the second son of John Butler, 17th Earl of Ormonde and Frances Susan Elizabeth Wandesford.

Butler was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilkenny City in the Irish House of Commons in 1796 (he never took his seat and resigned after 3 months) and served then for Kilkenny County until the Act of Union in 1801. He sat subsequently for the Irish county constituency of County Kilkenny and was member of the UK House of Commons from 1801, until he succeeded to the peerage, as 19th Earl of Ormonde, in 1820, on the death of his elder brother, Walter, the 18th Earl and 1st Marquess of Ormonde in the Irish peerage (the latter title becoming extinct upon his death).

Having joined fashionable society in London,^[1] he became a companion of the Prince Regent. Subsequently, at the Prince's coronation as George IV, he was created a Peer of the United Kingdom, as Baron Ormonde, of Llanthony, in the county of Monmouth and in 1825, Marquess of Ormonde.

Marriage and children

He married Grace Louisa Staples, daughter of Rt. Hon. John Staples and Hon. Henrietta Molesworth, on 12 October 1807. They had five sons and five daughters:^[2]

John Butler, 2nd Marquess of Ormonde (1808–1854), who married Frances Jane (d. 26 Aug. 1903), daughter of Gen. Hon. Sir Edward Paget, GCB
Lord Walter Wandesford Butler (1814–1861), Army officer
Captain Lord James Wandesford Butler (1815–1893), who married Lady Rachel Evelyn Russell, daughter of the 6th Duke of Bedford
Lord Richard Molesworth Butler (died 1863)
Lieut Lord Charles Wandesford Butler (died 1885), married Robert Fowler, 1st son of Rt Rev Robert Fowler DD, Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin
Anne Butler (died 1849), married John Wynne, of Hazlewood House, Sligo
Louisa Grace Butler (1816–1896), married Thomas Fortescue, 1st Baron Clermont
Lady Elizabeth Butler (died 1892)
Lady Mary Charlotte Butler (died 1840)

References

Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B. M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages ^{[self-published source]} ^{[better source needed]}
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 2)

Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by Hon. John Wandesford Butler James Wemys	Member of Parliament for Kilkenny City 1796 With: James Wemys	Succeeded by James Wemys Bryan Kavanagh
Preceded by William Brabazon Ponsonby Hon. John Wandesford Butler	Member of Parliament for Kilkenny County 1796–1801 With: William Brabazon Ponsonby	Succeeded by Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Constituency created	Member of Parliament for Kilkenny County 1801–1820 With: William Ponsonby 1801–1806 Hon. George Ponsonby 1806 Hon. Frederick Ponsonby 1806–1820	Succeeded by Hon. Frederick Ponsonby Charles Clarke
Honorary titles
New title	Lord Lieutenant of Kilkenny 1831–1838	Succeeded by Viscount Duncannon
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baron Ormonde 1821–1838	Succeeded by John Butler
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Walter Butler	Earl of Ormonde 1820–1838	Succeeded by John Butler
New creation	Marquess of Ormonde 1825–1838	Succeeded by John Butler

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[1] History of Kilkenny Castle.

[2] ttp://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/ormonde1825.htm

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Marriage and children

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