Augustus Matthew Butler

Augustus Matthew Butler

an English Congregational minister, was born at Leicester, March 5, 1837. He was converted in early life, and joined the Church in 1858. In 1861 he became evangelist to the Leicestershire Congregational Union, and five years later removed to Stowupland as an evangelist to the Suffolk Union. He accepted an invitation to the pastorate at Reddings, Derbyshire, in 1869, and there died, Jan. 18, 1875. See (Lond.) Cong. Year- book, 1876, p. 319.