{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Portal|Christianity}}'''Lilly Butler''' (died Jan 1792) was an Anglican priest, most notably Dean of Ardagh from 1785 to 1790.<ref>"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p189 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878</ref> He was born in Bletchingley and educated at Clare College, Cambridge.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-F6VCFd_VQUC&dq=Lilly+Butler+Dean+Ardagh&pg=PA273 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]</ref>

He was ordained deacon in 1754, and priest in 1756. He held livings at Wotton Underwood, Battersea and Witham.<ref>"The Monthly Repository of Theology Vol VIII" p16: Hackney; Sherwood, Neely & Jones; 1818</ref> He died in January 1792.

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