Personal Life
His wife, Professor Marilyn Butler, is a former rector of Exeter College, Oxford, and was the first woman to head a previously all-male college. They have three sons:
- Daniel Richard Butler (1963) who has two children with Bel Crewe (1965); Jack Badger(1994) and Molly Megan (1997).
- Gareth Edgeworth Butler (1965-2008) who has two children with Lucy Anderson; Joel Anderson (1994) and Sacha Butler (1996).
- Edmund Edgeworth Butler (1967) who has three children with Anna Korycinska; Staś (1996), Misia (1999) and Zosia (2000).
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