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Pembroke College, Cambridge. Richard Austen Butler was born 9 December 1902 in Attock, British India, the eldest son of Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler, a member of the Indian Civil Service, and Anne Smith. He had two sisters, Iris (1905–2002), who married Lieutenant-Colonel Gervase Portal (1890–1961) and became a writer, and Dorothy (1909 ...
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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
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Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG, CH, PC, DL (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), generally known as R. A. Butler and familiarly known from his initials as Rab, was a British Conservative politician. From July 1941 to May 1945 Butler served as President of the Board of Education, his first Cabinet level post, although he ...
Rab Butler revolutionised education in 1944. Let’s do it again. Sir Tim Brighouse. Our school system is broken and only a radical new education act for the 21st century will fix it. Tue 3 Apr...
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...
Aug 18, 2014 · Seventy years on, this is the historic wrong of the Butler education reforms that Ed Miliband’s Labour party is determined to right. Because whether it was the 1944 act itself or a failure of ...
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 in the 1950s.
