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Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG, CH, PC, DL (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), also known as R. A. Butler and familiarly known from his initials as Rab, was a prominent British Conservative Party politician; he was effectively Deputy Prime Minister to Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan, although he only held the ...
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Richard Austen Butler (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), generally known as R. A. Butler and familiarly known from his initials as Rab, was a prominent British Conservative politician. Butler was elected to Parliament for Saffron Walden in Essex at the 1929 general election and soon became a parliamentary assistant to Samuel Hoare , the ...
- 8 March 1982 (aged 79), Great Yeldham, Essex, England
Rab Butler. (Former Chancellor of the Exchequer) Richard Austen Butler was a British Conservative politician who rose to fame during his tenure as the Education Minister (1941–45). He was the one responsible for overseeing the Education Act 1944 which changed the education system for secondary schools in England and Wales.
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Richard Austen Butler (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), generally known as R. A. Butler and familiarly known from his initials as Rab, was a prominent British Conservative politician. Butler was born in British India to a family of distinguished Cambridge University academics.
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Mar 4, 2024 · R. A. Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden was a 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.
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v. w. x. y. z. Rab Butler © Butler was responsible for the 1944 Education Act that created the pattern for post-war secondary schooling in Britain. He was a key figure in the Conservative Party...
Apr 22, 2014 · What is the legacy of the Education Act, 70 years on? Rab Butler's 1944 reforms gave teachers autonomy but schools' freedom today comes with strings attached. Roy Blatchford. Tue 22 Apr 2014...