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5 days ago · Boothby was an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate for Orkney and Shetland in 1923 and was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen and Kincardine East in 1924. He held the seat until its abolition in 1950, when he was elected for its successor constituency of East Aberdeenshire. Re-elected a final time in 1955, he gave up the seat in ...
3 days ago · Rab Butler. 10 May 1940: “This is a black day in England’s history. We have been given into the hands of a drunken adventurer with all the worst characteristics of Charles James Fox….
1 day ago · The deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom is the second highest ranking minister of the Crown and a member ... Rab Butler 1962–1963: Willie Whitelaw 1979–1988:
2 days ago · The idea of UNESCO was largely developed by Rab Butler, the Minister of Education for the United Kingdom, who had a great deal of influence in its development. At the ECO/CONF, the Constitution of UNESCO was introduced and signed by 37 countries, and a Preparatory Commission was established.
Jul 5, 2024 · The Conservatives’ move left after 1945 was moreover imposed from the top on a sceptical but disempowered and deferential membership. Led by Rab Butler, who chaired the Conservative Research ...
1 day ago · For amongst those successors to Rab Butler, Iain Macleod, Cecil Parkinson and Chris Patten were Amanda Milling, Andrew Stephenson, Sir Jake Berry and Richard Holden. This is so backward a progress as to make one doubt the truth of evolution.
Jul 5, 2024 · Rab Butler is monumental figure in our political history. As Winston Churchill steered the nation through the tumultuous second World War, Butler’s pioneering 1944 Education Act abolished educational disparities, laying the foundation for universal free education.
