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336 336 BUTTER WORTH AND CHURCHILL. conduct of his uncle's business, and, owing to his efforts, its relations were very vastly extended. In 1813 he was in a position to marry a lady of birth and fortune, the daughter of Captain Whitehead, of the Fourth Irish Dragoon Guards, who not only afterwards entered fully into all his philanthropic projects, but possessed a refined and cultivated intel- lect, which found utterance in a volume of " Songs and Poems," by E. H. B., published by Pickering in 1848, which are evidently, as the authoress says of another gift f< An offering from a heart sincere. " Tho' small and worthless, what I send, Tis hallowed by affection's tear." In 1818, Butterworth found that there was little likelihood of his admission, as had been previously agreed upon, to a .satisfactory share of his uncle's business ; and having now to consider not only his own interests, but the welfare of a wife and family, he determined, with a sense of disappointment, to seek an independent roof, and there to carry out, on his own account, the art and mystery of law printing. Before we follow him to his new abode, we will devote a few words to his uncle's successful career. Joseph Butterworth, who had, in connection with Whieldon, founded a very large law-publishing busi- ness, realized, it is said, the largest fortune ever made by law publishing, and was one of the original founders of the British and Foreign Bible Society, its earliest meetings being held at his house in Fleet Street. His son died before him, and his business was sold to Messrs. Saunders and Benning ; and after various for- tunes, the shop became the Bible warehouse of Messrs. Spottiswoode,