Sir Thomas Butler, 12th Baronet

Colonel Sir Thomas Pierce Butler, 12th Baronet CVO DSO OBE JP FRGS (18 September 1910 – 9 April 1994) was an Irish soldier.

[1] He was the only son of Sir Richard Butler, 11th Baronet (1872–1955), the High Sheriff of Carlow in 1905, and Alice Dudley Leigh (daughter of the Very Rev.

[2] His family home, known as Ballintemple House near Tullow, County Carlow, a three-story Georgian mansion with a five-bay entrance front burned down in 1917.

Butler was the commander of the company leading the attack on the German 90th Light Division of the Afrika Korps.

[1] In 1952, Butler was appointed Assistant Quartermaster General in London under Sir Ouvry Lindfield Roberts.

They were the parents of two daughters and a son:[2] Sir Thomas died on 9 April 1994 while he was fishing on the River Slaney.