Henry Butts

Henry Butts, D.D. was a priest and academic in the second half of the sixteenth century and the first decades of the seventeenth.[1]

Butts was born in Northamptonshire. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1595; and MA in 1598. He was appointed Fellow in 1597; and Master in 1626. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1629 to 1631.[2] He held livings at Birdbrook then Barton Mills. He hanged himself on 1 April 1632.

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