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Nevile Butler

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.

After serving as Minister at the British Embassy at Washington in 1940–1941 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).

For his services he was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1933 and was knighted in the Order of St Michael and St George in 1947.

In 1923, he married Oonah Rose McNeile, daughter of Col. John McNeile. They had two daughters. Provided by Wikipedia