A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Butler, Thomas Atkinson
BUTLER. (Lieutenant, 1827.)
Thomas Atkinson Butler passed his examination in 1818; was promoted, 6 Oct. 1827, into the Orestes 18, Capt. Wm. Jones, on the Halifax station; joined next, 15 Nov. 1828, and 19 Feb. 1830, the Ramillies and Talavera 74’s, Capt. Hugh Pigot, lying in the Downs for the purposes of the Coast Blockade; obtained an appointment in the Coast Guard 31 March, 1831, and resigned it in 1834; and from 5 July, 1836, until 1840, and irom 19 Aug. 1842, until 1843, was again employed in the same service. Since the latter date he has been on half-pay.
He married, 10 April, 1841, Emma Louisa, second daughter of Commander Sir Henry Esch Atkinson, R.N.