| Country: | Australia |
| Fullname: | Francis Leicester Butler |
| Birth Date: | 28 February 1856 |
| Birth Place: | Battery Point, Colony of Tasmania |
| Death Place: | Westminster, London, England |
| Family: | Charles Butler(brother) Edward Butler (brother) Leo Butler (nephew) |
| Batting: | Unknown |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 1 |
| Runs1: | 3 |
| Bat Avg1: | – |
| 100S/50S1: | –/– |
| Top Score1: | 3 |
| Hidedeliveries: | true |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | –/– |
| Date: | 22 August |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/10224.html Cricinfo |
Francis Leicester Butler (25 February 1856 – 26 August 1885) was an Australian first-class cricketer.
The son of Charles Butler, a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, he was born at Battery Point in Hobart in February 1856.[1] He studied in England at St John's College, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, Butler made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the South in the North v South match of 1877 at Hull.[2] In a match in which he played alongside his brother, Edward, he scored 3 unbeaten runs in the South's first-innings.[3] A student of the Inner Temple, he was called to the bar in November 1880.[1] Butler died at Westminster in August 1885, having practised law primarily in Tasmania.[4] Another brother, Charles, also played first-class cricket, as did his nephew Leo Butler.