Geoffrey G. Butler

Sir George Geoffrey Gilbert Butler (15 August 1887 - 2 May 1929) was an English historian, academic and politician who served as a Member of Parliament for Cambridge University, 1923–1929.

Butler was educated at Clifton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won the Chancellor's Medal for English Verse and was elected president of the Cambridge Union Society.[1] He was uncle of and mentor to Rab Butler, and was an early sponsor of Liddell Hart, a former student who would upon the senior Butler's death that 'I have never had a better friend, in every sense of the word’. An avid Conservative, he was a significant figure in the intellectual and political history of his party between the World Wars.[2] In April–May 1917 he was a member of the Balfour Mission, intended to promote cooperation between the US and UK during World War I.

References

  1. ↑ BUTLER, Sir Geoffrey. ukwhoswho.com. Who Was Who. 2018 (online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Parkinson, Stephen. "Sir Geoffrey Butler and The Tory Tradition" Conservative History Journal Vol. 2, Issue 2 (August 2014); pp. 18-26



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