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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler
| office = [[List of colonial heads of Burma|Governor of Burma]]
| honorific-prefix =
| honorific-suffix = [[Order of the Star of India|GCSI]], [[Order of the Indian Empire|GCIE]], [[Venerable Order of St John|KStJ]]
| image = Harcourt_Butler.jpg
| monarch =
| predecessor = Office established
| successor = [[Charles Alexander Innes]]
| monarch2 =
| office2 = [[List of colonial heads of Burma|Lieutenant Governor of Burma]]
| predecessor2 = [[Reginald Craddock]]
| successor2 = Office dissolved
| birth_date = 1 August 1869
| birth_place = [[Cambridge, Cambridgeshire]], UK
| death_date = {{d-da|2 March 1938|1 August 1869|df=y}}
| death_place = London Borough of Camden, Greater London, UK
| nationality = [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]]
| spouse = [[Amelia Katherine Florence WRIGHT]]
| relations = [[Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler]]
| children =
| alma_mater = [[Harrow School]], [[Balliol College, Oxford|Balliol College]], Oxford
| occupation = [[Administrator of the Government|Administrator]]
| religion =
| term_start = 2 January 1923
| term_end = 20 December 1927
| term_start2 = 21 December 1922
| term_end2 = 2 January 1923
| office3 = [[List of colonial heads of Burma|Lieutenant Governor of Burma]]
| term_start3 = 28 October 1915
| term_end3 = 22 September 1917
| monarch3 =
| predecessor3 = [[George Shaw (civil servant)|George Shaw]]
| successor3 = [[Walter Francis Rice]]
}}

'''Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCSI|GCIE|KStJ}} (1 August 1869 – 2 March 1938) was an officer of the [[Indian Civil Service]]. He served as [[List of Lieutenant Governors of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|Lieutenant Governor]] of the [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh]] from 1918 to 1921 and later was the first governor of [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh]] from 1921 to 1922.

== Life and career ==
Butler was born on 1 August 1869 in Middlesex, England and died on 2 March 1938 in London, at age 68. He was the brother of [[Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler]] and [[Geoffrey G. Butler]].

Educated at [[Harrow School]] and [[Balliol College, Oxford]], Butler entered the Indian Civil Services soon afterwards, in 1890. He served as governor of [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Provinces]] from 3 January 1921 to 21 December 1922, and was followed by [[William Sinclair Marris|Sir William Sinclair Marris]]. Butler later went on to serve as Governor of [[Burma Province|Burma]] 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".

The Government of India in 1910 had appointed Butler as the first Member for Education with a seat on the [[Viceroy's Executive Council]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Riddick |first=John F. |title=The History of British India: A Chronology |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Es6x4u_g19UC&pg=PA166 |year=2006 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-32280-8|p=166}}</ref> He was also the first president of [[Delhi Gymkhana]], founded in 1913.<ref name=ht>{{cite news |title=A fine balance of luxury and care|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/chunk-ht-ui-newdelhi100years-topstories/A-fine-balance-of-luxury-and-care/Article1-723880.aspx |work=[[Hindustan Times]]|date=21 July 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111127160500/http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/chunk-ht-ui-newdelhi100years-topstories/A-fine-balance-of-luxury-and-care/Article1-723880.aspx |archivedate=27 November 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Butler was appointed a Companion of the [[Order of the Star of India]] (CSI) in 1909, knighted as a Knight Commander (KCSI) of the same order in 1911, and promoted to Knight Grand Commander (GCSI) of the order in 1928. He was appointed a Companion of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] (CIE) in November 1901,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27374 |date=9 November 1901 |page=7288 |supp=y}}</ref> and was promoted to a Knight Grand Commander (GCIE) of the same order in 1923.

The [[Harcourt Butler Technological Institute]], [[Kanpur]] established in 1921 was named after him which was granted a university status in September 2016. 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.

Butler helped the opening of the [[University of Medicine 1, Yangon]], on 2 February 1927. From 1927 to 1929 he chaired the [[Butler Committee (1927)|Butler Committee]] on the governance of the British Raj in relation to the [[princely states]].<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=32218|first=Francis|last=Robinson|title=Butler, Sir (Spencer) Harcourt}}</ref>

==Family==
Butler married Amelia Katherine Florence Wright.<ref>http://www.airgale.com.au/wright-w/d3.htm#c99832 {{Bare URL inline|date=May 2021}}</ref> She was born on 27 April 1872 in India and died on 10 November 1951 in Earls Court, London at age 79.

==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

==References==
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==Links==
* {{cite web|url=http://upgovernor.gov.in/harcourtbio.htm |title=About Harcourt Butler |accessdate=29 March 2016 |work=National Informatics Centre, Uttar Pradesh State Unit |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206015604/http://upgovernor.gov.in/harcourtbio.htm |archivedate=6 February 2012 }}
* [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Myanmar.htm Myanmar (Burma)], worldstatesmen.org. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
* [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.79454/page/n8 Speeches 1921]

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