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Personal life. On 20 April 1926, Butler married Sydney Elizabeth Courtauld (1902–1954), the daughter of Samuel Courtauld and co-heiress to the Courtaulds textile fortune. They had four children: Sir Richard Clive Butler (1929–2012), President of the National Farmer's Union from 1979 to 1986;
He was born as Richard Austen Butler in Attock Serai, Attock, in India (now in Punjab, Pakistan), on 9 December 1902 to Sir Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler and his wife, Anne Gertrude. Several members of his extended family were prominent public servants and educators. He was better known by the name of “Rab”.
4 mar 2024 · R. A. Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden (born Dec. 9, 1902, Attock Serai, India—died March 8, 1982, Great Yeldham, Essex, Eng.) was a British statesman high in the councils of government during World War II and the postwar years.
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Richard Austen Butler (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), generally known as R. A. Butler and familiarly known from his initials as Rab, was a prominent British Conservative politician. Butler was born in British India to a family of distinguished Cambridge University academics.
17 ago 2020 · Richard Austen Butler - who was always known as 'Rab' - was born on 9 December 1902 in India. He was educated at Cambridge University and in 1923 became Conservative member of parliament for ...
British Chancellor of the Exchequer 1951–5 Born in Attock (Punjab, India) and educated at Cambridge, he was elected to parliament in 1929 as a Conservative. In 1932, he became Under‐Secretary of State for India, and after a period at the Ministry of Labour, he became an Under‐Secretary at the Foreign Office in 1938.
R. A. BUTLER AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE, 1938-I939 907. hopeful of mutually advantageous Anglo-German co-operation. When he visited Berlin in mid-February I 938, he stayed with Ribbentrop and found him 'as pro-British as ever' and anxious to fulfil 'his life's work of crushing.
