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  Rab Butler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Butler and was familiarly known as Rab, was a British politician, one of the few to have served in all three posts of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary.
Butler followed to a large extent the economic policies of his Labour predecessor, Hugh Gaitskell, pursuing a mixed economy and Keynesian economics as part of the post-war political consensus.
Butler remained on the Conservative front bench for the next year, when he was appointed Master of Trinity College Cambridge, and at the same time he was was awarded a life peerage the same year as Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, of Halstead in the County of Essex.
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Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, familiarly known as Rab, (1902-1982) was a British politician.
Butler deputized as prime minister for Churchill during his illness in the early 1950s, but lost the contest to succeed Anthony Eden as party leader and prime minister to Harold Macmillan in 1957.
Butler's period as Chancellor in the 1950s interleaved with that of Hugh Gaitskell and both were seminal in forming the post-war political consensus on a mixed economy, allied with governmental intervention to promote social goals, that became known as butskelism.
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Richard Austen Butler Baron Butler of Saffron familiarly known as Rab (1902 - 1982) was a British politician.
Butler deputized as prime minister for Churchill his illness in the early 1950s but lost the contest to succeed Anthony Eden as party leader and prime minister Harold Macmillan in 1957.
Butler's period as Chancellor in the 1950s interleaved with that of Hugh Gaitskell and both were seminal in forming post-war political consensus on a mixed economy allied with governmental intervention to promote goals that became known as butskelism.
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 Butler of Saffron Walden, Richard Austen Butler - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Butler of Saffron Walden, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Butler of Saffron Walden, Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden (1902–1982)
Eden was, however, succeeded by Harold Macmillan and Butler retained his existing offices and also accepted that of home secretary, a position he held until 1962, when he became first secretary of state and deputy prime minister.
Butler was born in Attock Serai, India, and educated at Marlborough School and Pembroke College, Cambridge University.
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Richard Austen Butler, familiarly known as Rab, (1902 - 1982) was a British politician.
Butler deputized as prime minister for Churchill during his illness in the early 1950s, but lost the contest to succeed Anthony Eden as party leader and prime minister to Harold Macmillan in 1955.
When Macmillan retired as party leader and prime minister in 1963, his actions were widely seen as having operated to block Butler's succession to these offices and occasioned lasting bitterness from Butler's supporters, though Butler himself accepted office in the new cabinet of Alec Douglas-Home.
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Richard Austen Butler aka Rab Butler (1902 - 1982, British politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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 R. A. Butler
Richard Austen Butler, the son of a civil servant, was born in India in 1902.
Educated at Marlborough and Cambridge University, Butler was president of the Cambridge University Union (1924) and fellow of Corpus Christ College (1925-1929).
Butler's Credit Squeeze Budget in 1955 was unpopular and Butler was moved to the post of leader of the House of Commons.
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 Rab Butler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden''', familiarly known as '''''Rab'', (1902-1982) was a British politician, one of the few to have served in all three posts of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary of State for the Home DepartmentHome Secretary and Secretary of State for Foreign AffairsForeign Secretary/.
Many have speculated that Butler could have become Prime Minister of the United KingdomPrime Minister had Churchill died or been persuaded to retire, but was thwarted by opposition determined to prevent a "Man of Munich" becoming Prime Minister.
Butler remained on the Conservative front bench for the next year, when he was appointed Master of Trinity College, CambridgeTrinity College University of CambridgeCambridge, and at the same time he was was awarded a life peerage the same year as Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, of Halstead in the County of Essex.
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Butler followed to a large extent the economic policies of his Labour predecessor, Hugh Gaitskell, purusing a mixed economy and Keynesian economics as part of the post-war political consensus.
Butler also held various additional posts on different occasions throughout this period, including Leader of the House of Commons, Lord Privy Sealand Conservative Party Chairman.
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Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, familiarly known as Rab, (1902-1982) was a British politician, one of the few to have served in all three posts of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary.
Many have speculated that Butler could have become Prime Minister had Churchill died or been persuaded to retire, but was thwarted by opposition determined to prevent a "Man of Munich" becoming Prime Minister.
At the comparitively young age of 62 he left office for the last time with one of the longest records of ministerial experience amongst contemporary politicians.
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 Encyclopedia: Harold Macmillan
When Eden resigned in January 1957 he was succeeded by Macmillan on the 10th (despite many expecting Rab Butler to succeed instead) and Macmillan also became leader of the Conservative Party (22nd).
The Right Honourable Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG, CH, PC, DL (1902–1982), who invariably signed his name R. Butler and was familiarly known as Rab, was a British politician, one of the few to have served in all three posts of Chancellor of the...
The Right Honourable Sir Edward (Ted) Richard George Heath, KG, MBE (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005), soldier and politician, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975.
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When Eden resigned in January 1957 he was succeeded by Macmillan on the 10th (despite many expecting R.A. Butler to succeed instead) and Macmillan also became leader of the Conservative Party (22nd).
This proved controversial as it was alleged that Macmillan had pulled strings and utilised the party's grandees, nicknamed "The Magic Circle", to ensure that Butler was not chosen as his successor.
Richard Austen Butler: Lord Privy Seal and Secretary of State for the Home Department
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 Talk:Rab Butler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On reflection would Rab Butler be the more natural place for this article?
It's often pronounced "Rab" not "R. B." (as opposed to, say, A.
For two, you also get Lord Grenville and the Duke of Wellington (although that's only because he was caretaker "Secretary of State" in Nov-Dec 1834, meaning that he was technically Home Secretary as well as Foreign Secretary.
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 Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Labour Party leader Clement Attlee held the post in the wartime coalition government led by Winston Churchill, and had general responsibility for domestic affairs, allowing Churchill to concentrate on the war.
Richard Austen Butler held the post in 1962-3 under Harold Macmillan, but was passed over for the premiership in favour of Alec Douglas-Home.
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 Richard Butler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Janus: Papers of Richard Austen Butler (1902-1982), Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, politician
RAB with Richard and Adam in front of light aircraft.
RAB with Somerset Maugham and John Masefield at Royal Society of Literature function.
RAB and Korean Ambassador, with their wives, at a reception for the President of Iceland, with covering letter.
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 Politics | 1963 and all that
The sensible view that night in Blackpool was that Richard Austen Butler (Rab to friend and enemy alike) would be the obvious choice.
But Rab had already been passed over once when the party grandees (and they really were grand in 1957) had sent Macmillan to kiss hands at the Palace in his stead.
The problem was basically one of mistrust, compounded by the knowledge that he had been on the wrong side of the great tribal feud that was Churchill's battle with Chamberlain in 1938-40.
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 Author : works by Samuel Butler
A butler is the title of a senior domestic worker, whose duties traditionally included handling the wines of the household and some management of the other servants.
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His successes were the Pact of Locarno (1925), in which he, Gustav Stresemann of Germany, and Austen Chamberlain of Britain sought to normalize relations between Germany and its former enemies; and the Kellogg-Briand Pact (Aug. 27, 1928), in which 60 nations agreed to outlaw war as an instrument of national policy.
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Butler of Saffron Walden, Richard Austen Butler, Baron, byname Rab Butler (b.
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 Janus: Papers of Richard Austen Butler (1902-1982), Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, politician
Richard Austen Butler was born at Attock in the Punjab on 9 December 1902, the son of Sir Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler, Indian Civil Servant and later Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Firsts in Modern and Medieval Languages and in History led to a Fellowship at Corpus Christi College, but Butler decided on a Parliamentary career and was elected to the seat of Saffron Walden, a constituency that he served until his retirement from Parliament in 1965.
Butler, Richard Austen (1902-1982) Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
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 Conservative Party Archive
Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden (1902-1982) was Chairman of the Conservative Research Department, 1945-61, and Chairman of the Conservative Party Organisation, 1959-61.
Although R.A. Butler's private papers are in Trinity College, Cambridge, because of his role as Chairman of the Conservative Research Department (1945-61) and Chairman of the Conservative Party Organisaion (1959-61), the CPA contains a small collection of his papers.
The collection includes boxes (RAB 6-20) of outgoing correspondence (1946-61) which has been arranged chronologically, and finally a box of speech notes from his period as Home Secretary (1956-61).
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 Richard Austen Butler - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
, familiarly known as ''Rab'', (1902 - 1982) was a British politician.
He was born in India and educated at Cambridge_University where he was President of the Cambridge_Union_Society.
Butler's period as Chancellor in the 1950s interleaved with that of Hugh_Gaitskell and both were seminal in forming the post-war political consensus on a mixed_economy, allied with governmental intervention to promote social goals, that became known as butskelism.
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