Butler, R A, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
- Butler, R A, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
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▪ British statesman
born Dec. 9, 1902, Attock Serai, India
died March 8, 1982, Great Yeldham, Essex, Eng.
British statesman high in the councils of government during World War II and the postwar years.
Educated at Cambridge (1921–25), Butler lectured at that university on French history until 1929, when he was elected to Parliament as a Conservative. During the 1930s he worked successively in the ministries governing Indian, labour, and foreign affairs and earned some later reproach for championing the Munich Pact of 1938. During World War II, as president of the Board of Education, he was chiefly responsible for developing the comprehensive and revolutionary Education Act of 1944. After the war he was one of the prime advocates of an international educational body, resulting in the formation of
UNESCO.
When the Conservatives returned to power in 1951, Butler became chancellor of the exchequer; in 1955 he became lord privy seal and vigorously supported Prime Minister Anthony Eden during the Suez Crisis in 1956; for doing so, he was passed over for Harold Macmillan when a new Conservative prime minister was chosen. He was leader of the House of Commons from 1955 to 1961. His subsequent ministerial posts were home secretary (1957–62), deputy prime minister (1962–63), and
foreign secretary (1963–64). He was created a life peer, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, in 1965 and made a Knight of the Garter in 1971. His autobiography is
The Art of the Possible (1971).
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