Difference between revisions of "Charles Butler"

<p> a [[Romanist]] writer, was born in London 1750, educated at Douai, and practiced law in London for many years. [[Besides]] writing and editing a number of law books, he wrote Horae Biblicoe (2 vols. 8vo), containing an account of the literary history of the Old and New Testament, and of the sacred books of the Mohammedans, Hindoos, Chinese, Parsees, etc. It has gone through many editions. After 1806 his pen was largely employed on subjects regarding his own Church, which are collected in his general works. [[Among]] them are lives of Bossuet, of Fenelon, of [[Abbe]] de Rance, abbot of [[La]] Trappe; of St. Vincent de Paul, of Erasmus, of Grotius, of Henrie [[Marie]] de Boudon, of [[Thomas]] Kempis, of the [[Chancellor]] L'Hopital, etc., and of his own uncle, the Rev. [[Alban]] Butler, author of [[Lives]] of the Saints, a work which Mr. [[Butler]] himself continued. He was a strenuous advocate of [[Roman]] [[Catholic]] emancipation, and much of the progress of that measure is to be attributed to his [[Historical]] [[Memoirs]] of the English, Irish, and [[Scottish]] Catholics (1819). [[Hitherto]] he had abstained from controversy, but the appearance of Dr. Southey's [[Book]] of the [[Church]] engaged him in a series of letters to that writer, and afterward in two replies to [[Bishop]] [[Blomfield]] (q.v.) of [[Chester]] and to the Rev. [[George]] Townsend, Book of the R. C. Church (Lond. 1826, 8vo); [[Vindication]] of the Book of the R. C. Church (Lond. 1826, 8vo). His principal writings are gathered in five vols. 8vo (Lond. 1817). As he takes the Gallican stand-point throughout, his arguments for [[Romanism]] are held in no great repute among Roman theologians. He died June 2, 1832. </p>

<p> An [[English]] barrister, born in London; wrote "Historical Account of the Laws against the Catholics" (1750-1832). </p>