About Nevile Butler
Lived 1893 – 1973 (aged 79–80). Nevile Butler was a British diplomat.
Sir Nevile Montagu Butler (20 December 1893 – 11 November 1973) was a British diplomat.
Butler was born in 1893 to Henry Montagu Butler and Agnata Frances Ramsay. He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge. he headed the North American Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1941–1944), and between 1944 and 1947 was assistant under-secretary there. He was then appointed as the British ambassador to Brazil (1947–51) and to the Netherlands (1952–54). a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1942 New Year Honours and was promoted to Knight Commander in the Order (KCMG) in the 1947 Birthday Honours.
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Nevile Butler was born in 1893.
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