Butler, W

Butler, W.

an English Baptist minister, was born at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, in August, 1801, united with the General Baptist Church in Cauldwell in the autumn of 1817, and soon after began to preach. He was ordained in July, 1825, at Kegworth, where he remained till 1828, and then removed to Longford, Warwickshire, and in 1834 to Heptonstall Slack, where he continued as pastor till 1848. He died April 19, 1850. See (Lond.) Baptist Hand-book, 1851, p. 41. (J. C. S.)

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