History and chronology of Richard Austen Butler Saffron Walden in Great Britain

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Richard Austen Butler Saffron Walden History of Great Britain


1902	Birth
Birth of Richard Austen Butler
1924	Election
Saffron Walden Elected Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden
1929	Election
1932	Junior Minister
Appointed Junior Minister at the India Office
1938	Junior Minister
Appointed Junior Minister at the Foreign Office
1941	Minister of Education
Appointed Minister of Education
1941	Reform
London Introduces the 1944 Education Act
1945	Chairman CRC
Appointed Chairman of the Conservative Research Department
1945	Minister of Labour
Appointed Minister of Labour, during Churchill's "caretaker government"
1946	Chairman IPC Butler
Blackpool Appointed Chairman of the Conservative Indus trial Policy Committee
1947	Charter Industrial Charter
London The Indus trial Policy Committee draws up the Indus trial Charter, "Butskellism"
1949	Economy
The Indus trial Charter is repeated in "The Right Road for Britain"
1950	Manifesto Communist Party
London Draws up the Manifesto entitled, "This Is The Road" for the general election
1951	Chancellor
Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer
1952	Economy
Proposes the "Robot" scheme to float the œ & allow exchange rates "to take the strain"
1952	Flotation Sterling
London Sterling is floated by Rab Butler prior to his 1952 Buget
1953	Budget
19th April London Due to a trade surplus 6d is taken off the standard rate of income tax
19th April London Reduces the standard rate of tax to 9 shillings in the pound
1953	Chairman Cabinet
23rd June Appointed Chairman of the Cabinet, due to the ill health of Churchill & Eden
1955	Budget
London Reduces taxation prior to the general election
1955	Leader House of Commons
Dec London Appointed Leader of the House of Commons
1955	Lord Privy Seal
Dec Appointed Lord Privy Seal
1957	Leader House of Commons
13th Jan London Appointed Leader of the House of Commons
1957	Secretary of Home Affairs
13th Jan Appointed Home Secretary
1962	Deputy Prime Minister
London Appointed Deputy Prime Minister
1962	First Secretary
London Appointed First Secretary of State
1963	Election
Narrowly loses the Conservative Party leadership elections to Douglas -home
1963	Minister of Foreign Affairs
Appointed Foreign Minister
1965	Retirement
Butler retires from politics