Rab Butler
Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG, CH, DL, PC (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), who invariably signed his name R. A. Butler and was familiarly known as Rab, was a British Conservative politician. Butler was one of only two British politicians (the other being John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon) to have served in three of the four Great Offices of State (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary) but never to have achieved the Premiership, for which he was twice passed over.
Read more about Rab Butler: Early Life, Member of Parliament, Private and Family Life, 1944 Education Act, Resistance Plans, Post-war, Butler and Macmillan, The Succession To Macmillan, Retirement From Politics, In Fiction, Styles and Honours, Further Reading
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