Iris Butler
Iris Mary Butler (15 June 1905 - 2002) was an English journalist and historian.
Butler was born in Simla, India, to Sir Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler and his wife Ann. Her brother was the Conservative politician Rab Butler.[1] She wrote for the Eastern Daily Press and in 1967 published an account of the tempestuous relationship between Queen Anne, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough and Abigail Masham.[1] In 1927 she married Gervas Portal but published under her maiden name.
Iris Butler's grandson is Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury.[2]
Works
- Rule of Three (1967).
- The Viceroy's Wife: Letters of Alice, Countess of Reading, from India 1921-1925 (1969).
- The Eldest Brother: the Marquess Wellesley 1760-1842 (1973).
Notes
- 1 2 The Daily Telegraph, Iris Portal (22 November 2002).
- ↑ “Welby's Maternal Grandmother”
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