R. A. Butler

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R. A. Butler was a prominent mid-20th-century British Conservative politician and reformer, noted for shaping postwar social and educational policy and helping define the party’s moderate, consensus-driven direction.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British politician
Conservative Party politician
Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom
government minister of the United Kingdom
human
alsoKnownAs Rab Butler
awardReceived Companion of Honour
Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire
Knights Companion of the Order of the Garter
surface form: Knight of the Garter
causeOfDeath cancer
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
dateOfBirth 1902-12-09
dateOfDeath 1982-03-08
educatedAt Marlborough College
Pembroke College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
familyName Butler
givenName Austin
Richard
honorificTitle Baron Butler
surface form: Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
ideology One-nation conservatism
surface form: One Nation Conservatism
influenced British welfare state development
postwar Conservative Party policy
memberOfPoliticalParty Conservative Party (UK)
movement postwar consensus politics in the United Kingdom
nobleTitle life peer
notableAchievement major architect of postwar British education policy
notableWork Education Act 1944
numberOfChildren 3
parliamentaryTerm Member of the 1929–1931 Parliament of the United Kingdom
Member of the 1931–1935 Parliament of the United Kingdom
Member of the 1935–1945 Parliament of the United Kingdom
Member of the 1945–1950 Parliament of the United Kingdom
Member of the 1950–1951 Parliament of the United Kingdom
Member of the 1951–1955 Parliament of the United Kingdom
Member of the 1955–1959 Parliament of the United Kingdom
Member of the 1959–1964 Parliament of the United Kingdom
placeOfBirth Attock
British India
Punjab
placeOfDeath England
Essex
Great Yeldham
politicalAlignment moderate conservative
positionHeld Chairman of the Conservative Party
Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom
Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom
Home Secretary
surface form: Home Secretary of the United Kingdom

Lord Privy Seal
Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden
Minister of Education
President of the Board of Education
religion Anglicanism (broadly)
surface form: Anglicanism
residence Saffron Walden
sexOrGender male
spouse Sydney Courtauld
surface form: Mollie Courtauld

Sydney Courtauld

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