Butt also played three Test matches for England on their tour to South Africa in 1895–96.

He later went on to become an umpire, and stood in that role in six Tests.

His popularity was such that when he retired as an umpire due to ill-health, the County captains wrote to the Secretary of the Marylebone Cricket Club asking him to write to Butt to express their regret at the cause.

Butt, a short man, was Sussex's wicket-keeper for twenty years.

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