1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Saffron Walden Constituency – Biography of Butler

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Saffron Walden

CANDIDATE : Butler

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. A. Butler, after gaining high educational distinctions at Cambridge went into Parliament in 1929. His name has been given to the Education Act of 1944 which he piloted through Parliament when Minister of Education, and he held Ministerial posts at the India Office, the Foreign Office, and the Ministry of Labour. After the Conservative Party passed into Opposition in 1945, Mr. Butler took a leading part in the work of its reorganization and the drafting of the policy programme for the present election, becoming chairman of the Conservative Research Department in 1946. He was born in India in 1902, and educated at Marlborough and Cambridge, where his father, after a distinguished career in India, became Master of Pembroke College.

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