James Ramsay Montagu Butler

Sir James Ramsay Montagu Butler OBE was a British politician and academic.

Butler was born at Trinity College, Cambridge where his father, Henry Montagu Butler , Cambridge senior classic in 1855, was master of the college . His mother, Montagu Butlers second wife, Agneta Frances Ramsay, attained the highest marks in the Classical Tripos at Cambridge in 1887. With this impeccable classical background, Butler attended Harrow School and then Trinity College. As an undergraduate he was a brilliant scholar, winning a number of prizes including the Chancellors Medal in Classics and the Craven Scholarship, and gaining a double first class in Classics and History. He was also president of the Cambridge Union in 1910. When the First World War broke out in 1914, he joined the Scottish Horse. This was a regiment in the Yeomanry, and it saw service in the Middle East, first at Gallipoli and then Egypt. Butler next gained a position in the Directorate of Military Operations in the War Office and ended the war serving in the general staff of the British forces in France. H

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