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Rab Butler

1902 - 1982

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Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), also known as R. A. Butler and familiarly known from his initials as Rab, was a prominent British Conservative Party politician; he was effectively deputy prime minister to Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan, although he only held the official title for a brief period in 1962–63. He was one of his party's leaders in promoting the post-war consensus through which the major parties largely agreed on the 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rab Butler has received more than 1,017,003 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Rab Butler is the 16,815th most popular politician (down from 15,634th in 2019), the 106th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 94th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Pakistani Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rab Butler ranks 16,815 out of 19,576. Before him are Erkki Liikanen, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Valeriy Heletey, Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, Charles Tupper, and Chris Hipkins. After him are Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Æthelred, Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen, Dahir Riyale Kahin, and Kirti Nidhi Bista.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Rab Butler ranks 311. Before him are Ross Taylor, Emil Jónsson, Pietro Genovesi, Guy Lombardo, Tomasz Stankiewicz, and José María Lavalle. After him are Sida Košutić, George Murphy, Pua Kealoha, Fred Tootell, Luis Lucchetti, and Frank Vaughn. Among people deceased in 1982, Rab Butler ranks 286. Before him are Henri Dulieux, Wiesław Maniak, Alfons Dorfner, Humphrey Searle, Alexander Hurd, and Lester Bangs. After him are Eric Brandon, Claudio Barrientos, Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, William Cameron Townsend, Katherine Rawls, and Alois Schnabel.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Rab Butler ranks 106 out of 217. Before him are Asma Jahangir (1952), Mir Hazar Khan Khoso (1929), Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (1902), Khusrau Mirza (1587), Kamini Kaushal (1927), and Manorama (1926). After him are Sultan Rahi (1938), Nek Chand (1924), Salima Ikram (1965), Iqbal Masih (1983), Sartaj Aziz (1929), and Kulbhushan Kharbanda (1944).

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Among POLITICIANS In Pakistan

Among politicians born in Pakistan, Rab Butler ranks 40. Before him are Muhammad Khan Junejo (1932), Raja Pervaiz Ashraf (1950), J. B. Kripalani (1888), Shujaat Hussain (1946), Ram Jethmalani (1923), and Mir Hazar Khan Khoso (1929). After him are Sartaj Aziz (1929), Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi (1931), Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (1951), Balakh Sher Mazari (1928), Malik Meraj Khalid (1915), and Malik Ghulam Muhammad (1895).

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