Isaac Butt, Q.C., Member for Limerick.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3187, 7 May 1879, Page 2

Isaac Butt, Q.C., Member for Limerick.

In our calograms is notified the death of Isaac Butt/ who warmember^firlia* ment for Limerick, and one of the foremost men in Ireland. Of late; yeari Mr Butt has taken a most prominent part in ; the Home Eule question, and was the leader of that party in the British House of Commons. He was an earnest and brilliant speaker—a man, although' holding strong; opinions, never led by a desire to farther his cause, to reiort to unconstitutional or Tin* worthy meant. He fell out last year with his party because he refimd to countenance the tactics used by some of its prominent members in the Home of Parliament. His health hat of late years been failing, and his death is not a sor* pnseralthdugu hot a very old PiiriiW, s!The " Men of the Time " has the following:— "Butt, Isaac, Q.C;,the> only ion of the Key. Epbert Butt, incumbent of Stranorlarj cd; Donegal'; born in 1813; elrnins descent from the O'Donnells, tho ancient Irish chiefs 6f rTyrcotiiielt?rf He obtained a scholarship at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1832, and graduated in high claisioal and mathematical honors in. 1835. r la 1836 he was appointed to the Whi^ly Professorship of Political Economy in his college, and two years later was called to the Irish Bar. He obtained a silk gown in 1844, and was one of the counsel for the defence of Mr Smith O'Brien and ihe ■other prisoners, who ,were tried for high treason at Dublin in 1848, and^oflthe Fenians in .1865; ■ He was elected "for Harwich in May, 1,852^ and represented Youghal, in Ireland, as a Liberal Conservativer from 185? P tp „. During - his under-graduate course-Mr Butt'wag a distinguished - member oof the v College Hiitorians Society, in which he obtained the gold medal, and. was one of the; original projectors, and for some time editor of the Dublin University Magazine* to which, under the name of Edward Stevenson O'Brien, he contributed 'Chapters >of CoUegeEomance/ which have been recently re published in a separate sh^pe* In addition to being the author of several minor publicationi on Irish affai'i, and of some lectures on Political Economy, he published in 1837 a letter to Lord Morpeth on the Irish Poor Law, which ME M'Culloch highly commends in his 'Literature of Political Economy.' In 1840 he ap. peared at the bar of the House of Lords as counsel for, the corporation of Dublin against the Irish Corporation Reform Bill, was subsequently elected a member of the new corporation of that city, and in that capacity, opposed Mr O'Connell in. 1843 in his agitation for a repeal of ;tbV^onibn. Mr Butt published in 1860 a ' History of the Kingdom of Italy,' whioh was reviewed in favorable terms by-the -London press, \s: VJ...'H,,.g\ %% I V/