Henry Butler (16 or 17 November 1821 – 22 August 1885), was a surgeon and politician in colonial Tasmania.
After studying at some of the hospitals on the Continent, he returned to Tasmania, and began the practice of his profession in Hobart.
[1] Butler contested the seat of Brighton in the old unicameral Tasmanian Legislative Council without success in 1851,[3] however he was elected in 1854.
In the following October he was appointed Minister of Lands and Works, a position which he held till November 1872, when he resigned with his colleagues.
[1] He succeeded Sir Robert Officer as Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in April 1877, and having been twice re-elected in the interval, resigned in July 1885.