# Rohan Butler

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{{short description|English historian and civil servant}}
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'''Rohan D'Olier Butler''' (21 January 1917 - 30 October 1996) was an English historian and civil servant.

Butler worked on the multi-volume ''Documents on British Foreign Policy, 1919–1939''. He was an editor (1945–54) under Sir [Llewellyn Woodward](/source/Llewellyn_Woodward), then senior editor (1955–65) of the project.<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB |author= Roger T. Stearn |url= https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/63970 |title= Rohan D'Olier (1917–1996) |date = 23 September 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/63970}}</ref>

From 1963 to 1982 he was historical adviser to the [Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs](/source/Secretary_of_State_for_Foreign_Affairs_(UK)). 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. Sir [Julian Bullard](/source/Julian_Bullard) wrote that "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".<ref name="ODNB" />

He was the son of [Sir Harold Butler](/source/Harold_Butler_(civil_servant)).

==Works==

* {{cite book |title= The Roots of National Socialism 1783–1933 |publisher= Faber & Faber Ltd. |place= London |year= 1941 |url= https://archive.org/details/2015.190558.-the-roots-of-national-socialism-1783-1933 |via = [Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive)}}
*''Choiseul: Father and Son, 1719–1754'' (1980).

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== External links ==

* {{Internet Archive author |sname= Rohan Butler}}

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