I . R A (‘Rab’) Butler
( Richard Austen Butler 1902–82)
an English Conservative politician who held every important position in government except that of prime minister . He was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1951–5), Home Secretary (1957–62) and Foreign Secretary (1963–4). Most people expected him to follow Macmillan as Prime Minister, but Macmillan preferred Sir Alec Douglas-Home . Butler was made a life peer in 1965.
II . Rhett Butler
one of the main characters in the novel Gone with the Wind . Clark Gable played the role in the 1939 film version. Butler marries Scarlett O’Hara but leaves her at the end with the words, ‘Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn!’.
III . Samuel Butler
(1835–1902)
an English writer who escaped from his extremely religious English family to become a farmer in New Zealand. He wrote about this experience in his novel The Way of All Flesh (1903). His other famous book, Erewhon , makes fun of religion and other human ideas.