biography
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Butler, R(ichard) A(usten), Baron Butler
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known as Rab Butler
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| lived:
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| biography:
| British statesman, born in Attock Serai, India. He studied at Cambridge, and became Conservative MP for Saffron Walden in 1929. After a series of junior ministerial appointments, he became minister of education (1941–5), introducing the forward-looking Education Act of 1944, and then minister of labour (1945). He became Chancellor of the Exchequer (1951), Lord Privy Seal (1955), Leader of the House of Commons (1955), home secretary (1957), first secretary of state and deputy prime minister (1962). He narrowly lost the premiership to Douglas-Home in 1963, and acted as foreign secretary (1963–4) in his administration. He then became Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1965–78), and was made a life peer. |
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