George Butt (priest)

George Butt (26 December 1741 – 30 September 1795) was a British poet, teacher, cleric.

He was taken on by Sir Edward Winnington who employed him as a tutor for his son and after he had him accompany him to the same college that Butt had graduated from in Oxford.

[1] After that Winnington found Butt a rector's job at Stanford-on-Teme and built him a rectory.

[2] In 1773 he married a London silk merchants daughter, Martha Sherwood.

This was a gift of the Bishop of Bristol, Thomas Newton, and in 1783 he exchanged this living for a similar one at Notgrove in Gloucestershire.

St Mary's Church at Stanford where Butt was the rector