NATIONAL LEADER: R. A. BUTLER
7 R. R. A. BUTLER, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in Mr. Churchill’s Cabinet, is only 38 years of age, but he is well qualified to handle the work of
such an office. He was Under Secretary of State for India at the age of 22. Mr. Butler is the son of a distinguished Indian Civil Servant and was born in India, where his father held office at various times as Secretary to the Government of India and Governor of the Central Provinces. He took honours in history and languages at Cambridge and immediately embarked on the political career for which he had fitted himself, After five years in the India Office he became Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, which he left to take his present office, Since 1929 he has represented Saffron Walden at Westminster, Mr. Butler is a keen agriculturist and his farm in Sussex provides an outlet for surplus energy when he is not in the House. For years he has encouraged and helped the British farmer to increase production. At the age of 24 Mr, Butler married a daughter of Samuel Courtauld, chairman of the famous firm of fabric manufacturers and a Trustee of the Tate and National Galleries, They have three sons,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 57, 26 July 1940, Page 2
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