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Latest revision as of 23:03, 2 March 2015

Adam Butler (1931-2008) was a Conservative politician.[1]

He was the son of the leading Tory R.A. Butler.[2]


Northern Ireland

Butler served as a Minister of State in the Northern Ireland Office from 5 January 1981 to 11 September 1984.[3] When he was posted there by Margaret Thatcher, "he became her agent in the relatively liberal regime of Jim Prior, according to Andrew Roth.[4]

Notes

  1. Andrew Roth, Sir Adam Butler, The Guardian, 14 January 2008.
  2. Andrew Roth, Sir Adam Butler, The Guardian, 14 January 2008.
  3. David Butler and Gareth Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900-2000, Macmillan, 2000, p.41.
  4. Andrew Roth, Sir Adam Butler, The Guardian, 14 January 2008.