Lesley James Probyn Butler

Brigadier-General the Honourable Lesley James Probyn Butler was an officer of the Irish Guards.

He was born on 22 April 1876, the son of the 26th Baron Dunboyne. He served in South Africa from 1899 to 1900, for which he was awarded the Queen's medal with four clasps, and in the European War from 1914 to 1918, being mentioned in despatches six times and receiving the brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel, the DSO in 1916 and the CMG in 1917. He retired from the Army in 1922.

Butler was married in 1907 to Mary Christal, youngest daughter of Sir John Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Baronet; they had one son and two daughters. She died in 1951. He lived at Calverleigh Cottage, Tiverton, Devon, and was a deputy lieutenant for the county. He died on 31 December 1955.