Mulualem tadesse biography of william butler

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After his father's death Butler also managed Korongee orchard at Glenorchy. Politically independent, in he was an elected member and became treasurer of the Moonah Town Board. He had supported Federation and the introduction of the Hare- Clark voting system in Tasmanian State elections. As a respected equity lawyer and advocate, Butler was conveyancing counsel to the State Supreme Court and belonged to the editorial board responsible for reprinting The Public General Acts of Tasmania He was president of the Southern Law Society in and the first Tasmanian to be president of the Law Council of Australia in Butler was a prominent Anglican layman for more than thirty years.

In Bishop W. Barrett wrote of the synod: 'Butler's name was soon to become a household word in the affairs of the Church … His modest and gentle manner and his wide knowledge smoothed the passage of legal business in this and many later Synods'. For the 'nexus' debate at the synod on the legal relationship between the 'Church at Home' and the Church in Australia, Butler produced a detailed, scholarly treatise.

In he became Church advocate, and he made outstanding contributions to the debates over alterations to the Book of Common Prayer. He belonged to several church boards and to that of Christ College, whose affairs he had reconstructed as the progenitor of the Christ College Trust Act, In he was elevated to diocesan chancellor: Bishop R.

Hay commented: 'it was a just if somewhat tardy recognition of the Church's great indebtedness to him for the distinguished service which he had so freely and efficiently given to the diocese'. Butler's lecture to the Royal Society of Tasmania on the foundation of public institutions for secondary education in Tasmania has been the corner-stone for subsequent research on this subject.

He was elected to the Council of the University of Tasmania in , was vice-warden of the senate in and warden from until his death, and encouraged the establishment of the faculties of engineering and commerce; he was also on the board of The Hutchins School. A Rotarian and a bush-walker, he was also president of the Tasmanian section of the League of Nations Union.