Rab Butler

**Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden** KG CH PC DL (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), also known as **R.A. Butler** or by his initials as **"Rab" Butler**, was a Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1962 to 1963 for one year.

Butler died of colon cancer on 8 March 1982 at Great Yeldham, Essex.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: The Lord Butler of Saffron Walden
- **office**: Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- **primeminister**: Harold Macmillan
- **term start**: 13 July 1962
- **term end**: 18 October 1963
- **predecessor**: Anthony Eden <small>(1955)</small>
- **successor**: William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, William Whitelaw <small>(1979)</small>
- **office1**: First Secretary of State
- **primeminister1**: Harold Macmillan
- **term start1**: 13 July 1962
- **term end1**: 18 October 1963
- **predecessor1**: _Position established_
- **successor1**: George Brown, Baron George-Brown, George Brown <small>(1964)</small>
- **office2**: Chancellor of the Exchequer
- **primeminister2**: Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
- **term start2**: 28 October 1951
- **term end2**: 20 December 1955
- **predecessor2**: Hugh Gaitskell
- **successor2**: Harold Macmillan
- **office3**: Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
- **primeminister3**: Alec Douglas-Home
- **term start3**: 20 October 1963
- **term end3**: 16 October 1964
- **predecessor3**: Alec Douglas-Home
- **successor3**: Patrick Gordon Walker, Patrick Gordon-Walker
- **office4**: Home Secretary, Secretary of State for the Home Department
- **primeminister4**: Harold Macmillan
- **term start4**: 14 January 1957
- **term end4**: 13 July 1962
- **predecessor4**: Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby, Gwilym Lloyd-George
- **successor4**: Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor, Henry Brooke
- **office5**: Chairman of the Conservative Party
- **leader5**: Harold Macmillan
- **term start5**: 14 October 1959
- **term end5**: 9 October 1961
- **predecessor5**: Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, The Viscount Hailsham
- **successor5**: Iain Macleod
- **office6**: Leader of the House of Commons
- **primeminister6**: Anthony Eden
Harold Macmillan
- **term start6**: 20 December 1955
- **term end6**: 9 October 1961
- **predecessor6**: Harry Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank, Harry Crookshank
- **successor6**: Iain Macleod
- **office7**: Father of the House
- **term start7**: 16 October 1964
- **term end7**: 19 February 1965
- **predecessor7**: Winston Churchill
- **successor7**: Robin Turton, Baron Tranmire, Robin Turton
- **office8**: Lord Privy Seal
- **primeminister8**: Anthony Eden
Harold Macmillan
- **term start8**: 20 December 1955
- **term end8**: 14 October 1959
- **predecessor8**: Harry Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank, Harry Crookshank
- **successor8**: Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, The Viscount Hailsham
- **office9**: Secretary of State for Employment, Minister of Labour and National Service
- **primeminister9**: Winston Churchill
- **term start9**: 25 May 1945
- **term end9**: 26 July 1945
- **predecessor9**: Ernest Bevin
- **successor9**: George Isaacs
- **office10**: Secretary of State for Education, Minister of Education

- **primeminister10**: Winston Churchill
- **term start10**: 20 July 1941
- **term end10**: 25 May 1945
- **predecessor10**: Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury, Herwald Ramsbotham
- **successor10**: Richard Law, 1st Baron Coleraine, Richard Law
- **office11**: Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
- **primeminister11**: Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
- **1blankname11**: Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sec. of State
- **1namedata11**: Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, The Viscount Halifax
Anthony Eden
- **term start11**: 25 February 1938
- **term end11**: 20 July 1941

- **predecessor11**: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury, The Viscount Cranborne
- **successor11**: Richard Law, 1st Baron Coleraine, Richard Law
- **office12**: Members of the House of Lords, Member of the House of Lords
<small>Lords Temporal, Lord Temporal</small>
- **term start12**: 1965
- **term end12**: 1982
<small>Life peer, Life Peerage</small>
- **office13**: Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament
for Saffron Walden (UK Parliament constituency), Saffron Walden
- **term start13**: 30 May 1929
- **term end13**: 19 February 1965
- **predecessor13**: William Foot Mitchell, William Mitchell
- **successor13**: Peter Kirk (English politician), Peter Kirk
- **office14**: Shadow Foreign Secretary
- **leader14**: Alec Douglas-Home
- **1blankname14**: Shadowing
- **1namedata14**: Patrick Gordon Walker
Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, Michael Stewart
- **term start14**: 16 October 1964
- **term end14**: 27 July 1965
- **predecessor14**: Patrick Gordon Walker, Patrick Gordon-Walker
- **successor14**: Reginald Maudling
- **office15**: Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
- **leader15**: Winston Churchill
- **1blankname15**: Shadowing
- **1namedata15**: Hugh Gaitskell
- **term start15**: 10 December 1950
- **term end15**: 28 October 1951
- **predecessor15**: Oliver Stanley
- **successor15**: Hugh Gaitskell
- **birth name**: Richard Austen Butler
- **birth place**: Attock fort, Attock Serai, British Raj, British India

- **death place**: Great Yeldham, Essex, England, United Kingdom, UK
- **party**: Conservative Party (UK), Conservative
- **honorific prefix**: Privy Council of the United Kingdom, The Right Honourable
- **honorific suffix**: KG CH Privy Council of the United Kingdom, PC