Henry Butts
Henry Butts, D.D. was a priest and academic in the second half of the sixteenth century and the first decades of the seventeenth.[1]
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Born | 1575 |
Died | 1632 |
Butts was born in Northamptonshire. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1595; and MA in 1598. He was appointed Fellow in 1597; and Master in 1626. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1629 to 1631.[2] He held livings at Birdbrook then Barton Mills. He hanged himself on 1 April 1632.
References
- Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209–1751 Vol. i. Abbas – Cutts, (1922) pp370
- University of Cambridge web-site
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