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11 de jun. de 2018 · Rab Butler, 1951-55 Conservative, under Churchill and Eden Richard Austen Butler came from a family of academics, including Cambridge dons, two headmasters of Harrow and one of Haileybury. Like Gaitskell, his father was in the Indian Civil Service: Butler was born in the Punjab. He rejected Harrow, failed to get an Eton scholarship and ended…
Books. RAB: The Life of R.A. Butler. Anthony Howard. J. Cape, 1987 - Biography & Autobiography - 422 pages. Richard Austen Butler will always be remembered as the Conservative Party's "uncrowned Prime Minister". On the threshold of No. 10 three times - in 1953, when both Churchill and Eden were ill; in 1957, when he was expected to take over in ...
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 ...
Childhood & Early Life. He was born as Richard Austen Butler in Attock Serai, Attock, in India (now in Punjab, Pakistan), on 9 December 1902 to Sir Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler and his wife, Anne Gertrude. Several members of his extended family were prominent public servants and educators. He was better known by the name of “Rab”.
The Tories should have elected Rab Butler to succeed him. I expected them to do so and I would have enjoyed renewing the contest of the 1950s. But Rab did not have enough of the killer instinct to take over and his colleagues knew it. Instead, they chose the Earl of Home, who demoted himself to the House of Commons for the purpose.
3 de abr. de 2018 · Rab Butler, who was responsible for the 1944 Education Act. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Meanwhile, in every other developed democracy, including other parts of the UK, schools are accountable ...
1 de ene. de 2001 · Richard Austen Butler will always be remembered as the Conservative Party's 'uncrowned Prime Minister'. On the threshold of No. 10 three times in his career -- in 1953, when both Churchill and Eden were ill; in 1957, when he was almost universally expected to take over in the wake of Suez; and again in 1963, when an ailing Harold Macmillan ruthlessly blocked his succession -- his record of ...
