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Rab Butler

AKA Richard Austen Butler

Born: 9-Dec-1902
Birthplace: Attock Serai, India
Died: 8-Mar-1982
Location of death: Great Yeldham, Essex, England
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Politician

Nationality: England
Executive summary: UK Foreign Secretary, 1963-64

Father: Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler
Mother: Anne Gertrude Smith
Wife: Sydney Elizabeth Courtauld (m. 1926, one son, two daughters)
Son: Adam Courtauld Butler (former MP, b. 11-Oct-1931)
Son: Samuel James Butler

    High School: Marlborough College
    University: Pembroke College, Cambridge University
    Administrator: Rector, University of Glasgow (1956-59)
    Administrator: Master, Trinity College, Cambridge University (1965-78)
    Administrator: Chancellor, University of Essex (1966-82)

    UK Foreign Secretary (1963-64)
    UK Minister Deputy Prime Minister, First Secretary of State (1962-64)
    UK Home Secretary (1957-62)
    UK Leader of the House of Commons (1955-61)
    Lord Privy Seal (1955-59)
    Chancellor of the Exchequer (1951-55)
    UK Minister of Labour (1945)
    UK Official President, Board of Education (1941-45)
    UK Minister Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1938-41)
    UK Minister Under-Secretary of State for India (1932-37)
    UK Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden (1929-65)
    Carlton Club
    Conservative Party (UK) Chairman (1959-61)
    Life Peerage 19-Feb-1965 as Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
    Knighthood Kt., Order of the Garter (1971)


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