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I've been undertaking some research and there seems to be no evidence that the Hervey who was the ancestor of the Butler family was himself a 'de Clare' or a descendant of the 'de Clare' family.
The Complete Peerage, 2nd ed. vol. 2, p. 447 has no mention of the Clare family.
Similarly the The Complete Peerage, vol 12(2) p. 246 also doesn't connect the Walter/Butler family to the de Clares.
Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants, p. 398 doesn't mention a Hervey de Clare amongst the children of Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare, and Adelisa de Clermont.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography in it's article about Theobald Walter (Butler) only mentions his father as Hervey Walter with again no mention of descending from the de Clare family.
The original Dictionary of National Biography article about Theobald Butler written by J. Horace Round has some discussion and mention of sources for the Walter/Butler family but again no hint that he was descended from the de Clare family.
This last source cites other sources including primary sources and they need to be researched, but it seems highly likely that this LNAB should be changed and the current parents disconnected.
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Categories: Medieval Project, England and Wales, needs biography
More research needs to take place.
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Butler
This is an excellent book that discounts Hervey de Clare & others as being ancestors of Theobald Bulter-
http://suffolkinstitute.pdfsrv.co.uk/customers/Suffolk%20Institute/2014/01/30/Volume%20II%20(1859)_Ickworth%20and%20the%20Family%20of%20Hervey%20Lord%20Arthur%20Hervey_291%20to%20406.pdf
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:VCH_Lancaster_1.djvu/454