Richard Butler (British Army officer)

Lieutenant General Sir Richard Harte Keatinge Butler KCB KCMG (1870–1935) was a British Army general during the First World War.

Military career
Educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Butler was commissioned into the Dorset Regiment in 1890.

He served in the Second Boer War and then became a Brigade Major at Aldershot in 1906. He also served in the Great War, initially as Commanding Officer of 2nd Battalion the Lancashire Fusiliers and then as Commander of the 3rd Infantry Brigade before becoming a Major-General on the General Staff of 1st Army from 1915. He was Deputy Chief of the General Staff on the Western Front from 1916 and then became General Officer Commanding III Corps in February 1918.

After the War he was General Officer Commanding 2nd Division from 1919 to 1923; he became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Western Command in 1924 and retired in 1929.

He ultimately lived at Roden Lodge, Shawbury, in Shropshire, where he died on 22 April 1935. He was buried in the Parish Churchyard at Hodnet, Shropshire.

Family
In 1894 he married Helen Frances Battiscombe and had issue of a son and a daughter.