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Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden

(1902-1982), Politician; served as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary

Sitter in 44 portraits
Conservative politician who held high office in the 1950s and early 1960s. Minister of Education (1941-5); Chancellor of the Exchequer (1951-5); Home Secretary (1957-62); Foreign Secretary (1963-4). His principal achievement is seen as the 1944 Education Act, the 'Butler Act' which set the pattern for free secondary education for the next twenty years.

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This is a far, far better thing.... than I have ever done, by Neville Colvin ('Colvin') - NPG 5350

This is a far, far better thing.... than I have ever done

by Neville Colvin ('Colvin')
pen and ink and Letratone, 1962
NPG 5350

Change the crew?  Why we'll row forever, steady from stroke to bow, by Victor Weisz - NPG 5351

Change the crew? Why we'll row forever, steady from stroke to bow

by Victor Weisz
pencil, pen and ink and white heightening, published in Evening Standard 5 April 1962
NPG 5351

Winston Churchill and his cabinet of 1955, by International News Photos - NPG x182304

Winston Churchill and his cabinet of 1955

by International News Photos
vintage print, 1955
NPG x182304

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Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 9 July 1937
NPG x157230

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Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 9 July 1937
NPG x157231

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Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 9 July 1937
NPG x157232

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Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 9 July 1937
NPG x157233

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Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 9 July 1937
NPG x157234

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Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden

by Walter Stoneman
negative, September 1941
NPG x163068

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Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden

by Walter Stoneman
negative, September 1941
NPG x163069

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Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden

by Walter Stoneman
negative, September 1941
NPG x163070

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Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden

by Walter Stoneman
negative, September 1941
NPG x163071

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Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden

by Hay Wrightson
chlorobromide print, circa 1950s
NPG x47169

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Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden

by Elliott & Fry
whole-plate glass negative, 1951
NPG x100271

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Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden

by Elliott & Fry
whole-plate glass negative, 1951
NPG x100272

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Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden

by Elliott & Fry
whole-plate glass negative, 1951
NPG x100273

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Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden

by Elliott & Fry
whole-plate glass negative, 1951
NPG x100274

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Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden; (Samuel) James Butler

by Sir (Henry) Ashley Clarke
vintage colour snapshot print, June 1955
NPG x136228

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Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden

by Rex Coleman, for Baron Studios
half-plate film negative, 2 July 1965
NPG x125936

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