Rohan D'Olier Butler (21 January 1917 - 30 October 1996) was an English historian and civil servant.
Butler worked on the multi-volume ''Documents on British Foreign Policy, 1919–1939''. He was an editor (1945–54) under Sir
Llewellyn Woodward
Sir Ernest Llewellyn Woodward, FBA (1890–1971) was a British historian. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and after the First World War became a lecturer in Modern History and fellow of All Souls C ...
, then senior editor (1955–65) of the project.
[Roger T. Stearn, â]
Butler, Rohan D'Olier (1917–1996)
€™, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2012, accessed 19 Nov 2013.
From 1963 to 1982 he was historical adviser to the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
The secretary of state for foreign, Commonwealth and development affairs, known as the foreign secretary, is a minister of the Crown of the Government of the United Kingdom and head of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Seen as ...
. Butler believed that historians could make a beneficial contribution to the formation of foreign policy, and he wrote extensively, especially on German and Russian issues. Sir
Julian Bullard wrote that "there were few important British ministerial speeches in that period in which the argument was not strengthened and the text not embellished by a contribution from Rohan's distinctive pen".
He was the son of
Sir Harold Butler.
Works
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*''Choiseul: Father and Son, 1719–1754'' (1980).
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1917 births
1996 deaths
English civil servants
20th-century English historians