English wine cask units the mediæval French and Italian "botte") or pipe was half a tun, or 1008 pints. Tradition has it that George, Duke of Clarence, the brother of Edward IV of England, was drowned in a butt of malmsey on 18 February 1478. (However, Josephine Tey in "The Daughter of Time" suggests that "drowned in a butt of malmsey" means rather that George, Duke of Clarence, drank himself to death rather than literally drowning in a container of wine.) In Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado", the narrator claims he has received "a pipe of what passes for Amontillado".
Ikram Butt № 595); Tony Butt. Ikram Butt Ikram Butt (born 25 October 1968) is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played at representative level for England, and at club level for Featherstone Rovers (Heritage № 679), Leeds, , Huddersfield Giants and Hunslet Hawks as a . Ikram Butt's birth was registered in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, he was the first south Asian to play either code of international rugby for England in 1995. Whilst with the , he was convicted of perverting the course of justice and spent three months in prison