Early Life
Butt was born in 1813 in Glenfin, a district bordering the Finn Valley in County Donegal, part of the Province of Ulster in the north of Ireland. Glenfin is a short distance west of Ballybofey. He was the son of a Church of Ireland rector but was also descended from the O'Donnells of Tyrconnell, through the Ramsays. Butt received his secondary school education at The Royal School in Raphoe, County Donegal, and at Midleton College, County Cork, before going to Trinity College, Dublin, at the age of fifteen. Whilst there he co-founded the Dublin University Magazine and edited it for four years. For much of his life was a member of the Irish Conservative Party. He became professor of political economy at Trinity in 1836 and held that position until 1841.
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