Somerset Butler, 1st Earl of Carrick

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Somerset Hamilton Butler, 1st Earl of Carrick PC (6 September 1719 – 15 April 1754), known as Somerset Butler, 7th Viscount Ikerrin from 1721 to 1744, was the son of Thomas Butler, 6th Viscount Ikerrin and Margaret Hamilton.

Lord Ikerrin was created Earl of Carrick in 1744. On 18 May 1745 he married Lady Juliana Boyle, daughter of Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon and Lady Henrietta Boyle. They had four children.

[edit] Children

1. Henry Thomas Butler, 2nd Earl of Carrick (19 May 1746 – 20 July 1813) married Sarah Taylor
2. Lady Margaret Butler (23 January 1748 – April, 1775) married Armar Lowry-Corry, 1st Earl Belmore.
3. Lady Henrietta Butler (15 August 1750 – 20 June 1785) married Edmund Butler, 11th Viscount Mountgarret
4. Pierce Butler-Cooper (15 August 1750 – 5 May 1826) married Catherine Roth, daughter of Richard Roth, Esq.

Henrietta & Pierce were twins

[edit] References

• thepeerage.com Accessed November 8, 2007
• Cokayne, George E. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. London: G. Bell & sons, 1887. googlebooks.com Accessed November 9, 2007
• Lodge, Edmund. The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage. London: Saunders and Otley, 1832. googlebooks.com Accessed November 11, 2007