Early Life and Family
Butler was born in Lytham St Annes on on 3 January 1938. He went to Harrow School (where he was Head Boy), then taught for a year at St Dunstan's School, Burnham-on-Sea before going up to University College, Oxford, where he took a double first in Mods and Greats and twice gained a Rugby Blue. He married Gillian Lois Galley in 1962. They have a son and two daughters.
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