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James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde.
Irish politician and soldier (1665-1745)
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About James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde
James FitzJames Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, was an Irish statesman and army officer. He was the third of the Kilcash branch of the family to inherit the earldom of Ormond. Like his grandfather, the 1st Duke, he was raised as a Protestant, unlike his extended family who held to Roman Catholicism. He served in the campaign to put down the Monmouth Rebellion, in the Williamite War in Ireland, in the Nine Years' War and in the War of the Spanish Succession but was accused of treason and went into exile after the Jacobite rising of 1715.
Everything about James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Member of the Privy Council of Ireland, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk
- Citizenship
- Ireland
- Born
- April 29, 1665
- Died
- November 16, 1745