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Rab Butler

Born: 9 December 1902, Attock Serai, India

Died: 8 March 1982

Baron Butler of Saffron Walden - 19 February 1965

Member of Privy Council - 1939

son of Sir Montagu Butler

husband of Sydney Courtauld

son of Ann Smith

Marlborough College

Pembroke College, Cambridge

Under Secretary of State for India	1932	1937
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour	May 1937	February 1938
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Foreign Affairs	February 1938	July 1941
President of the Board of Education	July 1941	August 1944
Secretary of State for Education	August 1944	May 1945
Minister of Labour	May 1945	July 1945
Chancellor of the Exchequer	28 October 1951	20 December 1955
Lord Privy Seal	20 December 1955	October 1959
Leader of the House of Commons	20 December 1955	October 1959
Secretary of State for the Home Department	14 January 1957	13 July 1962
First Secretary of State	13 July 1962	18 October 1963
Deputy Prime Minister	13 July 1962	18 October 1963
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	20 October 1963	15 October 1964

30 May 1929	Saffron Walden	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,561	44.45
27 October 1931	Saffron Walden	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,501	77.67
14 November 1935	Saffron Walden	Conservative & Unionist Party	19,669	67.13
5 July 1945	Saffron Walden	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,950	46.90
23 February 1950	Saffron Walden	Conservative & Unionist Party	19,797	49.91
25 October 1951	Saffron Walden	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,564	51.72
26 May 1955	Saffron Walden	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,671	54.21
8 October 1959	Saffron Walden	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,955	53.22
15 October 1964	Saffron Walden	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,610	49.30
19 February 1965 Elevation of Rt Hon Richard Butler to the Peerage - Baron Butler of Saffron Walden - on appointment as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.