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Early life and career of Rab Butler (1902–1929)

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During his fourth year at Cambridge (1924–1925), he concentrated on study, reading for Part II in History and International Law. He used notes which his uncle Geoffrey had prepared for a planned book on International Law. He later recorded that in his International Law exam, he had been dissatisfied
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Butler suffered a nervous breakdown that summer and had to postpone his plans to study History to a fourth year. He took a less strenuous course in German in the meantime. He spent part of the summer of 1923 abroad learning German, became unusually fluent in the language and impressed his hosts with
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Howard quotes a letter from his father, who was openly disappointed and is clear that Butler was awarded his BA that summer despite his being about to stay on for a further year of undergraduate study (a student at Cambridge normally needs to pass a Part I and a Part II, not necessarily in the same
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by the end of his first year. At the end of his second year, he was elected Secretary for Michaelmas (autumn) term 1923 at his second attempt, by the narrow margin of 10 votes out of 500. At that time, Secretary was the only office normally contested, which put him on track to be Vice-President for
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His limp handshake, lack of military experience and his stooping donnish manner (in an era when many politicians were former officers) were political handicaps in later life. Howard (p. 7) states that it made "any form of military service out of the question", a line followed by many biographers.
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of which he became a vice-president. Psychiatric illness was then still little understood. In November 1923, his college put him in the care of a doctor, and in December 1923, his uncle Cyril sent him to a specialist in Bristol. Butler made a recovery from his breakdown. On 11 March 1924, after
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As a child of Empire, from his mid-teens onwards, Butler was expected to look after his younger siblings by arranging for them to stay with relatives during school holidays and by sending them Christmas presents, which he pretended had been sent by their parents. His sister was the writer
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Lent 1924 and President for Easter (summer) term 1924. At the end of his second year, in June 1923, he achieved a First in French Part I and was awarded an £80 scholarship to supplement his £300 parental allowance (approximately £4,000 and £15,000 at 2014 prices).
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In July 1909, at the age of six, his right arm was broken in three places in a riding accident. The injury was aggravated by a burn from a hot water bottle and an attempt to straighten the arm by hanging weights from it, which left his hand not fully functional.
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special subject and at one point knew by name the way that every Conservative MP voted during the split over the Irish Coercion Bill of 1846. He received one of the highest firsts in the university across all subjects, which was known at the time as a "I:I".
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and the heiress to part of the Courtauld textile fortune. His father-in-law awarded him a private income of £5,000 a year after tax for life, the equivalent of a Cabinet Minister's salary and equivalent to almost £260,000 at 2014 prices.
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In summer 1926, Butler resigned his residential Cambridge fellowship to go on a honeymoon tour of the world and became instead a supernumerary fellow. He renewed his contact with
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subject, to obtain a BA). Jago (2015, p.30) states that his third year counted only as "General Studies" but that he needed a fourth year to obtain Honours.
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with an admonition not to take life too seriously. At the end of his third year (1924), he received a Second in German. He graduated as a BA in 1924.
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In the summer of 1924, Butler took part in the ESU USA Tour, a seven-week debating tour of Canada and the United States that was organised by the
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After the death of his wife from cancer in 1954, Butler married Mollie Courtauld (née Montgomerie) on 21 October 1959. She had been married to
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After graduating, he taught briefly as a Cambridge don and married into the wealthy Courtauld family. Butler was elected to Parliament for
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with his essays, and at half time, he tore up his answers and wrote six fresh ones on six sheets of foolscap. In History, he took the
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Baldwin's career at Harrow and Trinity, Cambridge, had suffered from a poor relationship with one of Butler's relatives,
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Although backbench MPs were then paid less than today in real terms, Cabinet ministers were paid more than now.
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and, after initially reading French and German, graduated with an outstanding first-class degree in History.
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and passed at the top of his year in Corps Certificate A (Jago 2015, p.10) and was a competent recreational
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academics. As a child, his right hand was permanently disabled in a riding accident. He was educated at
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his near-native syntax. He also came to feel that the Germans had been harshly treated by the recent
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Anglo-Soviet relations were extremely topical throughout the 1920s, especially that year.
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In Michaelmas 1923, as Secretary, he persuaded the Cambridge Union to affiliate to the
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Butler married Sydney Elizabeth Courtauld on 20 April 1926. She was the daughter of
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from Samuel Courtauld in 1949. In 1976, it was sold to the Queen as a home for
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and his wife, Anne Gertrude (née Smith). Butler's mother was the daughter of
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In September 1914 Butler attended, and remembered for the rest of his life,
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Butler's paternal family had a long and distinguished association with the
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and held the seat until his retirement from the House of Commons in 1965.
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However, despite his partial disability, Butler trained in his school
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The Butlers lived at Stanstead Hall, and in 1938, they moved into 3
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Butler attended Brockhurst preparatory school but refused to attend
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was a major issue in the Conservatives' landslide victory at the
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began that summer and caused the fall of the government, and the
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Richard Austen Butler – Personal Facts and Details stanford.edu
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personal liberty and closer relations with the Soviet Union.
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R.A. Butler papers in the Conservative Party Archive
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and retained the seat until his retirement in 1965.
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He gave lectures on the politics of the 662:'s famous speech in support of the war at 546:and familiarly known from his initials as 252: 44: 23: 1724:contributions in Parliament by Rab Butler 703:Jane Williams, Baroness Williams of Elvel 643:, a Cambridge historian and Conservative 1638:. Vol. 9. Oxford University Press. 869:(1929–2012), president (1979–86) of the 447:29 September 1932 – 28 May 1937 282:25 February 1938 – 20 July 1941 1036: 939: 879:(1931–2008), who was also a politician; 381:28 May 1937 – 25 February 1938 207:30 May 1929 – 19 February 1965 789:. 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Index

Rab Butler
The Right Honourable
MP

Attock Serai
British India
Great Yeldham, Essex
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Conservative
Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler
Saffron Walden
William Mitchell
Peter Kirk
Under Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs

The Earl of Plymouth
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Sec. of State
The Viscount Halifax
Anthony Eden
The Viscount Cranborne
Richard Law
Parliamentary Secretary to the
Ministry of Labour

Neville Chamberlain
Minister
Ernest Brown
Anthony Muirhead
Alan Lennox-Boyd
Under Secretary of State for India
Ramsay MacDonald

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