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Charles Butler
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1820-1909
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Charles Butler (1820-1909) came to Tasmania in 1835 at the age of fifteen and completed his education in Tasmania at Longford Hall School under William Gore Elliston for one year and then under W.H. Wilmot (d.1842) for another year. In 1838 he was articled to the solicitor Robert Pitcairn in Hobart and was admitted a lawyer of the Tasmanian Supreme Court in 1843 and after his brother Edward's death in 1849 became a partner with his father in Butler, Nutt and Butler. He was president of the Southern Law Society from its foundation in1888 until 1907. In 1847 he married Georgina Wilmot (1819?-1880), daughter of his old schoolmaster W.H. Wilmot and his wife Eliza (Best), and they had ten children: Kate Geogiana (1849-1929), Edward Henry (1851-1928), Lucy Madeleine (1852- ), Charles William (1854-1937), Francis Leicester (called Leicester 1856-1385), Ida Mary ( 1358-I 949), Leila Chalmers (1859- ), May Maria (1861- ), Herbert Maxwell (1863- ยท ), Montague Howard (1868-1895).
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