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{{Short description|Irish peer}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name            = Richard Butler
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| office1         = [[List of Irish representative peers|Representative peer for Ireland]]
| term1           = 1800–1819
| party           = [[Tories (British political party)|Tory]]
| birth_date      = {{birth date|1775|11|13|df=yes}}
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| death_date      = {{death date and age|1819|01|30|1775|11|13|df=yes}}
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| father          = [[Baron Cahir|James Butler]]
| spouse          = {{marriage|Emily Jefferyes|1793}}
| children        = 4, including [[Richard Butler, 2nd Earl of Glengall|Richard]]
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'''[[The Right Honourable|The Rt Hon.]] Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Glengall''' (13 November 1775 – 30 January 1819), known as '''The 10th Baron Cahir''' before 1816, was an Irish peer.
==Biography==
He was the son and heir of [[Baron Cahir|James Butler, 9th Baron Cahir]], and Sarah Nicholls. In July 1788, he succeeded to his father's title and assumed his seat in the [[Irish House of Lords]].<ref>John Debrett, [https://books.google.com/books?id=fm5BAAAAYAAJ&dq=Earl+of+Glengall+peerage&pg=PA1073 ''The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland''], Volume 1 (1822), p.1073.</ref> Following the implementation of the [[Acts of Union 1800|Acts of Union]] in January 1801, Lord Cahir, as he then was styled, was elected as one of the original 28 [[List of Irish representative peers|Irish representative peer]]s, and took his seat on the [[Tories (British political party)|Tory]] benches in the British [[House of Lords]]. On 22 January 1816, he was created '''Viscount Cahir''' and '''Earl of Glengall''', both titles in the [[Peerage of Ireland]].
==Marriage and issue==
On 15 August 1793, the then Lord Cahir married Emily Jefferyes, daughter of James St. John Jefferyes and [[Arabella Jeffereyes|Arabella FitzGibbon]], sister of [[John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare|The 1st Earl of Clare]]. They had four children:<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lodge|first1=Edmund|title=The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing: Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications of the Nobility|date=1839|publisher=Saunders and Otley|page=229|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eITUAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA229|accessdate=3 December 2016|language=en}}</ref>
*[[The Honourable|The Hon.]] [[Richard Butler, 2nd Earl of Glengall|Richard Butler]] (17 May 1794 – 22 June 1858), styled as [[Viscount]] Cahir between January 1816 and January 1819.
*[[Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom|Lady]] Harriet Anne Butler (1 January 1799 – 14 September 1860), married [[George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall|The 3rd Marquess of Donegall]]
*Lady Charlotte Butler Talbot (9 May 1809 – 22 March 1846), married [[Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot]], M.P.
*Lady Emily Georgina Arabella (1812 –), married firstly [[Richard Pennefather (judge)|Richard Pennefather]] (died 1849); secondly, [[General (United Kingdom)|General]] [[Henry Aitchison Hankey]]
Lord Glengall was succeeded by his only son, [[Richard Butler, 2nd Earl of Glengall|Richard, Viscount Cahir]].<ref>John Debrett, [https://books.google.com/books?id=fm5BAAAAYAAJ&dq=Earl+of+Glengall+peerage&pg=PA1073 ''The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland''], Volume 1 (1822), p.1073.</ref>
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