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Reginald Cotterell Butler (28 April – 23 October ) was an English sculptor.!
Reg Butler
English sculptor
For other people named Reginald Butler, see Reginald Butler (disambiguation).
Reginald Cotterell Butler (28 April 1913 – 23 October 1981) was an English sculptor.
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He was born at Bridgefoot House, Buntingford, Hertfordshire to Frederick William Butler (1880–1937) and Edith (1880–1969), daughter of blacksmith William Barltrop, of The Forge, Takeley, Essex.[1][2] His parents were the Master and Matron of the Buntingford Union Workhouse.[3] Frederick Butler, formerly a police constable,[1] was a relative of the poet William Butler Yeats; Edith was of Anglo-French descent.[4]
Butler studied and lectured at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London from 1937 to 1939.
He was a conscientious objector during the Second World War, being exempted from military service conditional upon setting up a small blacksmith business repairing farm implements. After winning the