Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler was an officer of the Indian Civil Service who was the leading British official in Burma for much of his career, serving as Lieutenant-Governor and later Governor of Burma (1923–27).

Sir Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler, 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).