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 to 1922.
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Early life and education
Butler was born in Harrow, Middlesex, the second son of academic Henry Montagu Butler and his first wife, Georgina Elliot, granddaughter of diplomat Hugh Elliot. His father was headmaster of Harrow School (1860–85), Dean of Gloucester (1885–86) and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1886–1918). His elder brother was Edward Montagu Butler, who played first-class cricket. After their mother's death, his father remarried Agnata Frances Ramsay. Sir 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.
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.