Political career of Rab Butler: 1929–1941 Political career of Rab Butler: 1929–1941 Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), generally known as R. A. Butler and familiarly known from his initials as Rab, was a prominent British Conservative politician. Butler was elected to Parliament for Saffron Walden in Essex at the 1929 General Election, and soon became a parliamentary assistant to Samuel Hoare, the leading Conservative politician associated with Indian policy. Butler attended the Second Round Table Conference and early in 1932 he visited India on Lord Lothian's Franchise Committee, which recommended an increase in the Indian franchise.
Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler Smith, later Principal of the University of Aberdeen. He was survived by son Rab Butler and daughter Iris Mary Butler. His great-grandson, Justin Welby, was inducted as Archbishop of Canterbury on 21 March 2013. Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler Sir Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler, (19 May 1873 – 7 November 1952) was Governor of the Central Provinces of British India 1925–33, Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man 1933–37, and Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge 1937–48. He was the grandson of scholar and churchman George Butler, the brother of Indian administrator Harcourt Butler, and the father of noted British politician Rab