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Politician; served as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary Conservative politician who held high office in the 1950s and early 1960s. Minister of Education (1941-5); Chancellor of the Exchequer (1951-5); Home Secretary (1957-62); Foreign Secretary (1963-4). His principal achievement is seen as the 1944 Education Act, the 'Butler Act' which set the pattern for free secondary education for the next twenty years.
Jun 28, 2018 · The Foreign Secretaries (17): Rab Butler. Rab Butler, 1963-64. Conservative, under Home. You can read about Butler’s early career and his time as chancellor, here; about the period of Suez, his time as home secretary and his failure to become prime minister, here. The said irony is that Rab Butler had always wanted to be foreign secretary ...
Oct 20, 2015 · In this robust and insightful biography of the great nearly-man of British politics, bestselling author Michael Jago looks to answer whether Rab Butler really was ‘The Best Prime Minister We Never Had’. Show more. Genres Politics. 642 pages, Kindle Edition. First published October 20, 2015.
Despite his tenure of three of the four Great Offices of State, his popularity with the electorate and the truly revolutionary 1944 Education Act that bears his name, Richard Austen 'Rab' Butler narrowly missed out on the premiership on three separate occasions during his political career, earning him the sobriquet that has attached to his name ever since - The Best Prime Minister That Britain Never Had.
Jan 1, 1987 · Anthony Howard. 3.80. 10 ratings2 reviews. Richard Austen Butler will always be remembered as the Conservative Party's 'uncrowned Prime Minister'. On the threshold of No. 10 three times in his career -- in 1953, when both Churchill and Eden were ill; in 1957, when he was almost universally expected to take over in the wake of Suez; and again in ...
Richard Austen Butler, the son of a civil servant, was born in India in 1902. Educated at Marlboroughand Cambridge University, Butler was president of the Cambridge University Union (1924) and fellow of Corpus Christ College (1925-1929). In the 1929 General Election, Butler won the Saffron Walden seat for the Conservative Party.
May 18, 2018 · Butler, Richard Austen (1902–82). Born in India and educated at Cambridge, ‘Rab’ Butler entered Parliament in 1929 as MP for Saffron Walden. As president of the Board of Education he was responsible for the Education Act (1944) which introduced a tripartite secondary system and the ‘11-plus’ examination. During his time as chairman of ...
