Rab Butler
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Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, also known as R. A. Butler and familiarly known from his initials as Rab, was a prominent British Conservative Party politician; he was effective
Butler in 1963
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Butler in 1934
Butler in 1963
Hugh Gaitskell
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Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell was a British politician who was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1955 until his death in 1963. An economics lecturer and wartime civil servant,
Rab Butler
…main points of domestic policy until the 1970s; it is sometimes known as "Butskellism" from a fusion of his name with that of his Labour counterpart, Hugh Gaitskell. Born into a family of academics and Indian administrators, Butler had a distinguished academic career before he entered Parliament in 1929. As a junior…
Gaitskell in 1961
The Gaitskell flats in Holbeck, Leeds were named after Gaitskell. They were demolished in 2010.
Hugh Gaitskell 1958