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. 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 Tory, he was a significant figure in the intellectual and political history of his party between the World Wars.^[1] 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.

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