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Rohan D'Olier Butler was born on January 21, 1917 in Hampstead, London, United Kingdom. The younger son of Sir Harold Beresford Butler and his wife Olive Augusta Newenham. Rohan was raised in Geneva, where his father, Sir Harold Butler, a member of the Ormonde clan, was head of the International Labour Office.
Butler worked on the multi-volume Documents on British Foreign Policy between 1919 and 1939. Butler became a fellow of All Souls College at Oxford University in 1938. It was a post he held until 1984, when he became fellow emeritus. While at Oxford University, he also worked stints as a senior research fellow. During World War II, he served in the British Army as well as with the Special Operations Executive and the Ministry of Information. In 1944 he joined the Foreign Office. He was an editor (1945–1954) under Sir Llewellyn Woodward, then senior editor (1955–1965) of the project. From 1963 to 1968 he was historical adviser to Britain’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, assuming the same position for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 1968 until 1982. He began another series called "Documents on British Policy Overseas". He served as senior editor for the series from 1973 til 1982. He retired from the Foreign Office in 1982. During his career he also served as Leverhulme Research Fellow and governor for the Felsted School. Among Butler’s other writings were "The Roots of National Socialism and Choiseul".
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.
Butler became a fellow of All Souls College at Oxford University between 1938 and 1984.
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Julian Bullard: "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".
