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He was the grandson of one Hervey Walter who, in the time of Henry I., held Witheton or Weeton in Amounderness, a small fee of the honour of Lancaster, the manor of Newton in Suffolk, and certain lands in Norfolk.
John dying six years later was succeeded by WalterButler, a first cousin, whose son John, heir-male of the line of Ormonde, became earl of Ormonde and Ossory and Viscount Thurles in 1791, the Irish parliament reversing the attainder of 1715.
Walter, son and heir of the restored earl, was given an English peerage as Lord Butler of Llanthony (r80r) and an Irish marquessate of Ormonde (1816), titles that died with him.
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