BUTLER, CHARLES British lawyer and miscellaneous writer, was born in London on Aug. 14, 1750, and died there on June 2, 1832. He was educated at Douai and in entered Lincoln's Inn. He practised conveyancing, and after the passing of the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791 he was the first Roman Catholic to be called to the bar, since 1688. Butler acted as secretary to the Committees on Penal Reform formed by Roman Catholic laymen in 1782 and 1787. The number of his published works comprises about fifty volumes.
A complete list of Butler's works is contained in Joseph Gillow's Bibliographical Dictionary of English Catholics, vol. i. pp.