Rab Butler

Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG, CH, PC ( born December 9, 1902 in Attock Serai, British India, † March 8, 1982 in Great Yeldham, Essex ), known as Rab Butler, was a British Conservative politicians.

Career

Butler was from 1929 to 1965 member of the House of Commons. From 1951 to 1955 he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary from 1957 to 1962 and 1963/1964 Minister of Foreign Affairs. He is thus one of only three British politicians who have held these three posts. In the meantime, he was from 1955 to 1959 Lord Privy Seal. 1959 to 1961 he was also Chairman of the Conservative Party.

The House of Lords, he was a member since 1965, when he was raised as Baron Butler of Saffron Walden for Life Peer, after he had previously rejected a hereditary title of nobility. From 1966 to 1982 he was the first Chancellor of the University of Essex.

1957 and 1963 he was a potential prime minister talking, but lost in the intra-party competition against Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas -Home.

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