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Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG, CH, PC, DL (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), also known as R. A. Butler and familiarly known from his initials as Rab, was a prominent British Conservative Party politician; he was effectively Deputy Prime Minister to Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan, although he only held the ...
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.
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.
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.
Rab Butler Biography - Childhood, Life Achievements & Timeline. (Former Chancellor of the Exchequer) Richard Austen Butler was a British Conservative politician who rose to fame during his tenure as the Education Minister (1941–45).
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...
R. A. (‘Rab’) Butler. (1902—1982) politician. Quick Reference. (b. 9 Dec. 1902, d. 8 Mar. 1982). 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.
Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG, CH, PC, DL (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), also known as R. A. Butler and familiarly known from his initials as Rab, was a prominent British Conservative Party politician; he was effectively Deputy Prime Minister to Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan, although he only held the ...
R. A. Butler has been one of the outstanding figures in twentieth-century British politics. After his death The Times described him as ‘the creator of the modern educational system, the key-figure in the revival of post-war Conservatism, arguably the most successful chancellor since the war and un-questionably a Home Secretary of reforming zeal’.
Jun 11, 2018 · Rab Butler, 1951-55. Conservative, under Churchill and Eden. Richard Austen Butler came from a family of academics, including Cambridge dons, two headmasters of Harrow and one of Haileybury. Like Gaitskell, his father was in the Indian Civil Service: Butler was born in the Punjab.
