William Butts

His granddaughter Anne was married to the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper.

Sir William Butts played an important role in King Henry's relations with Thomas Wolsey, while the Cardinal lay sick at Esher in 1529/30.

[9] He was a known Protestant and close associate of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, and of Catherine Parr, the sixth wife of Henry VIII.

The Fulham historian Faulkner identified Butts's original monument as an altar-tomb or tomb-chest of English marble against the south wall of the chancel of All Saints Church, Fulham, on which was his brass effigy in armour as a knight, with a brass scroll on one side inscribed "Myn Advantage".

His arms were shown at each corner of the stone, "Azure 3 lozenges gules, on a chevron or, between 3 etoils or".

Portrait of William Butts aged 59 by Hans Holbein the Younger (circa 1543)
Margaret Butts, portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger
William Butts with a Memento Mori
Tomb of Sir William Butts the younger, at Thornage (1583)