Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Butt, Charles Parker
BUTT, The Hon. Charles Parker, was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1854, and joined the Northern circuit. He obtained a silk gown in 1868. He unsuccessfully contested Tamworth in Feb., 1874, and sat for Southampton, in the Liberal interest, from April, 1880, till March, 1883, when he was appointed to the judgeship in the Admiralty division of the High Court of Justice, vacant by the resignation of Sir Robert Phillimore.