Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
(1902-1982), Politician; served as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign SecretarySitter 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.
Harold Macmillan; Richard Austen Butler; John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd; Ernest Marples
by William Papas ('Papas')
pen and ink, early 1960s
NPG 5356
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Barry Fantoni
pencil and gouache, 1960s-1970s
NPG 6776
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
pencil, pen and ink and white heightening, published in Evening Standard 5 April 1962
NPG 5351
'So what if we lose a few shopkeepers votes' he said
by William Papas ('Papas')
pen and ink and blue crayon, 1964
NPG 5360
by Victor Weisz
pen and ink, blue crayon and white heightening, 1964
NPG 5361
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Bern Schwartz
dye transfer print, 4 May 1977
NPG P1146
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Margaret Foreman
oil on canvas, 1981
NPG 5463
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Elliott & Fry
half-plate negative, December 1934
NPG x81854
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, July 1937
NPG x163094
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 9 July 1937
NPG x83565
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 9 July 1937
NPG x83985
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, September 1941
NPG x45740
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x3355
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x3356
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1951
NPG x86575
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1951
NPG x86576
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass negative, 1953
NPG x29078
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1955
NPG x163095
Winston Churchill and his cabinet of 1955
by International News Photos
vintage print, 1955
NPG x182304
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Walter Bird
bromide print, 12 March 1964
NPG x163096
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Paul Joyce
bromide print on card mount, May 1977
NPG x13428
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 9 July 1937
NPG x157230
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 9 July 1937
NPG x157231
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 9 July 1937
NPG x157232
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 9 July 1937
NPG x157233
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 9 July 1937
NPG x157234
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden and an unknown man
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 9 July 1937
NPG x157235
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Walter Stoneman
negative, September 1941
NPG x163068
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Walter Stoneman
negative, September 1941
NPG x163069
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Walter Stoneman
negative, September 1941
NPG x163070
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Walter Stoneman
negative, September 1941
NPG x163071
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1942
NPG x1764
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1942
NPG x1765
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1942
NPG x1766
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1942
NPG x1767
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Hay Wrightson
chlorobromide print, circa 1950s
NPG x47169
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Elliott & Fry
whole-plate glass negative, 1951
NPG x100271
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Elliott & Fry
whole-plate glass negative, 1951
NPG x100272
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Elliott & Fry
whole-plate glass negative, 1951
NPG x100273
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Elliott & Fry
whole-plate glass negative, 1951
NPG x100274
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
Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
by Walter Bird
vintage print, 1964
NPG x183926
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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