Joseph Butterworth (1770 – 30 June 1826) was an English law bookseller and politician.
At an early age he went to London, where he learned the law-book trade, and founded a large and lucrative establishment in Fleet Street, in which his nephew Henry Butterworth later worked.
There Lord Liverpool, John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth, William Wilberforce and Zachary Macaulay had discussions, and the first meetings of the British and Foreign Bible Society were held.
for Coventry from 1812 to 1818, and for Dover from 1820 to 1826, and gave independent support to the government of the day.
He died at his house in Bedford Square, London, 30 June 1826, aged 56.