Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler, GCSI

Order of the Star of India

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, GCIE

Order of the Indian Empire

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, KStJ (1 August 1869 – 2 March 1938) was the first governor of United Provinces of Agra and Oudh

United Provinces of Agra and Oudh

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 (now Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh

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, India

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). Educated at Harrow School

Harrow School

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 and Balliol College

Balliol College, Oxford

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, University of Oxford

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, Butler entered the Indian Civil Services

Indian Civil Services

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 soon afterwards, in 1890. He served as governor of United Provinces

United Provinces of Agra and Oudh

The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh was a province of India under the British Raj, which existed from 1902 to 1947; the official name was shortened by the Government of India Act 1935 to United Provinces, by which the province had been commonly known, and by which name it was also a province of...

 from 3 January 1921 to 21 December 1922, and was followed by Sir William Sinclair Marris

William Sinclair Marris

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. Butler later went on to serve as Governor of Burma

Burma Province

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 from 2 January 1923 to 20 December 1927; he had already been lieutenant-governor of Burma from 28 October 1915 to 22 September 1917, and held the title briefly again from 21 December 1922 to 2 January 1923. On that date the position became that of "Governor".

He is also the fist president of Delhi Gymkhana

Delhi Gymkhana

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, founded in 1913. He was the brother of Sir Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler.

The Harcourt Butler Technological Institute

Harcourt Butler Technological Institute

Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur is an academic autonomous engineering college under the Uttar Pradesh Technical University. Its programs have been conferred autonomous status under the university. It is the second engineering institute in Uttar Pradesh after the former University of...

 in Kanpur, an engineering college established in 1921 was named after him. Also Harcourt Butler Higher Secondary School (Now Known as Harcourt Butler Senior Secondary School), New Delhi was also named after him in 1917. It was earlier called Bengali Boys School.

Titles

• 1869–1901: Spencer Harcourt Butler
• 1901–1909: Spencer Harcourt Butler, CIE
• 1909–1911: Spencer Harcourt Butler, CSI, CIE
• 1911–1913: Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler, KCSI, CIE
• 1913–1923: Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler, KCSI, CIE, KStJ
• 1923–1928: Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler, GCIE, KCSI, KStJ
• 1928–1938: Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler, GCSI, GCIE, KStJ