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
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