Paul Dalrymple Butler

Sir Paul Dalrymple Butler
Born(1886-03-02)2 March 1886
Died2 February 1955(1955-02-02) (aged 68)
Bristol
OccupationBritish diplomat

Sir Paul Dalrymple Butler KCMG (2 March 1886 – 2 February 1955) was a British diplomat.

Biography

Butler was educated at Bedford School. He joined the British Diplomatic Service in 1908 and, following diplomatic postings in Tokyo, Seoul, Manila, Taiwan, Yokohama and Mukden, he was appointed as Consul-General in San Francisco, between 1938 and 1941. He was Director-General of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Ministry of Information in New Delhi, between 1942 and 1943, Counsellor to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in 1944, and British Minister to the Far Eastern Regional Committee of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, between 1944 and 1946.[1]

Sir Butler married Helen Maxima Scranton (b. Seoul, Korea), daughter of Methodist missionaries to Korea, Dr. William Benton Scranton and Louise Wyeth "Loulie" Arms Scranton.

Sir Paul Dalrymple Butler was invested as Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1938,[2] and as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1944.[3] He retired from the Diplomatic Service in 1946 and died in Bristol in 1955, aged 68.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Who's Who".
  2. ^ "No. 34469". The London Gazette. 1 January 1938. p. 6.
  3. ^ "No. 36309". The London Gazette. 1 January 1944. p. 6.
  4. ^ Obituary, The Times, 7 February 1955
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Archibald Charlton CMG
 British Consul-General
in San Francisco
1938-1941 		Succeeded by
Sir Godfrey Fisher KCMG


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