Arthur Hugh Montagu Butler

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Arthur Hugh Montagu Butler (23 November 1873 – 28 May 1943) was an English librarian who was librarian at the House of Lords Library from 1914–22.[1]

Early life and education

Butler was born in

James Ramsay Montagu Butler and Sir Nevile Butler were his younger half-brothers. Headmaster George Butler was his grandfather, Rev. Canon George Butler his uncle, and Josephine Butler
his aunt.

Butler was educated at Harrow, where he played for the Cricket XI. He and William Francis George Wyndham won the public school rackets championship in 1890.[1]

Career

Butler served as a clerk in the House of Lords from 1895–97, and was assistant librarian under Sandford Arthur Strong (1897–1904) and Sir Edmund Gosse (1904–1914). He succeeded Gosse as librarian in 1914.[1]

In addition to his work at the library, Butler also acted as Secretary of Commissions to Lords Chancellors Robert Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn and Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, as well as Secretary to the Statute Law Revision Committee, 1902–22.[1]

Butler oversaw the library alone during the First World War, when his assistant librarian,

card catalogue for the library's law books as a replacement Sandford Arthur Strong's Victorian era catalogue.[4]

On 18 January 1922, Butler booked a room for himself under a false name at the

Midland Grand Hotel, St. Pancras. He was found in the bathroom shortly afterwards suffering from a severe wound to the throat in an apparent suicide attempt. He was transferred to University College Hospital, where he underwent surgery and recovered.[5][6] He resigned his position on health grounds that year and was succeeded by Clay as librarian.[4]

Personal life

In 1900, Butler married Margaret Edith, second daughter of Francis Law Latham, Advocate-General of Bombay, 1884–1893. There had one son and two daughters. He died in 1943 in London.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Mr. A. H. M. Butler". The Times. 31 May 1943. p. 6.
  2. ^ 1881 England Census
  3. ^ "Death of Dr. Montagu Butler – The Master of Trinity". The Times. 15 January 1918. p. 9.
  4. ^ a b Greenhead, John. "History of the House of Lords Library" (PDF). House of Lords. p. 2. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  5. ^ "A London Hotel Mystery – Mr. A. H. M. Butler Found Wounded". The Times. 19 January 1922. p. 7.
  6. ^ "Mr. A. H. M. Butler – A Serious Throat Wound". The Times. 20 January 1922. p. 7.
Government offices
Preceded by
House of Lords Librarian

1914–1922 		Succeeded by
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