Person    | Female  Died 21/2/1915

Lady Margaret Butler-Charteris

Categories: Benefactor

Countries: Ireland, Scotland

Lady Margaret Butler-Charteris

Daughter of the Scots Richard Butler, 2nd Earl of Glengall (1794 – 1858) and wife, then widow, to the Irish Richard Charteris (1822 – 1874). She was the eldest daughter and heir to her father. 

The National Archives shows that she inherited property in Woodford. They had two sons and two daughters.

From Patrick Comerford:  "... 2nd Earl of Glengall, was responsible for much of the development and rebuilding of Cahir {the family estates in Ireland} in the first half of the 19th century. But he was declared bankrupt in 1853 and the Cahir estates were sold. However, 20 years later, his daughter, Lady Margaret Butler-Charteris, succeeded in buying back Cahir House and the entire Cahir estate."

From Story Maps: "Meanwhile, the Second Earl of Glengall declared bankruptcy in 1853  and sold his estates. The property had two buyers, mainly including the Cahir Grubbs. While the Grubbs’ fortunes waxed in the 1850s, the Butlers’ waned: indeed, the earlship died out with Richard Butler’s 1858 death. Butler’s only daughter, Margaret Butler Charteris, married the Earl of Fife from eastern Scotland in that same year {this must be an error, the Earl of Fife was already married then, to someone else}, and the pair repurchased part of the land and “built Caher Park  as the family home.” Even so, Margaret was an “absentee landlord” and “resident in London.” Still, she proved to be an “improving” presence who funded street lamps and made Cahir one of the “the first towns in Munster to have a fresh water supply.” Despite losing their title, the Butler line remained prominent in the local area. ....

"Meanwhile, the presence of the Butler-cum-Charteris family persisted in Cahir. Lady Charteris took on a more active role from the noughts onward. A November 5th, 1910 article from The Nationalist  glowingly noted that the local football club played at Cahir Park, “which Lady Margaret Charteris (in addition to her other gifts to the Cahir people, including waterworks, ball court, reading rooms, etc.)” allowed for free. Meanwhile, her son Richard Charteris rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel within the British military  by the First World War. As he served, Lady Charteris hosted wounded Royal Irish Regiment soldiers at her Cahir home... "

Other sources: Wikidata; the Peerage; British Museum.

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