St John Desmond Arcedeckne-Butler
St John Desmond Arcedeckne-Butler | |
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![]() Major-General Arcedeckne-Butler in 1944 | |
Born | Dickoya, Ceylon | 30 November 1896
Died | 4 February 1959 County Wexford, Ireland | (aged 62)
Allegiance | ![]() |
Service/ | ![]() |
Years of service | 1915–1946 |
Rank | Major-General |
Service number | 10309 |
Unit | Royal Munster Fusiliers Royal Sussex Regiment Royal Corps of Signals |
Commands | Signals Experimental Establishment |
Battles/wars | First World War Second World War |
Awards | ![]() |
Relations | Baron Dunboyne |
Major-General St John Desmond Arcedeckne-Butler CBE (30 November 1896 – 4 February 1959), was a senior British Army officer and head of MI8.
Career
[edit]Educated in the USA and Switzerland, Arcedeckne-Butler entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, being commissioned into the Royal Munster Fusiliers in 1915. Serving with distinction in France and Belgium during the Great War, he was decorated with the Légion d'honneur and was one of the two young British Army officers sent to study at the prestigious École Supérieure d'Électricité (Supélec) in Paris at the end of World War I.[1]
Arcedeckne-Butler transferred to the Royal Sussex Regiment in 1922 and then to the Royal Corps of Signals in 1923.[1]
Between 1934 and 1939, Arcedeckne-Butler served as Superintendent of the Signals Experimental Establishment and as Army Member of the Experimental sub-committee of the Wireless Telegraphy Board.[2]
Appointed Colonel in 1938, Arcedeckne-Butler joined the General Staff at the War Office in 1940 and, promoted Major-General (temporary), served as Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Supply between 1941 and 1946.[1]
General Arcedeckne-Butler was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1946 New Year Honours,[3] retiring from the British Army the same year. He later became a Director of Romary & Co. Ltd, Thermionic Products Ltd and other companies as well as a member of the Broadcasting Advisory Committee, Eire.[1]
Family
[edit]Scion of the Irish Butler dynasty, his great-great-grandfather was the 13th Baron Dunboyne (1780–1850). His father, St John Henry Arcedeckne-Butler (1868–1914) married in 1896 Maud, daughter of Captain Albert Money, late RCRR, of Little Stodham House, Liss, Hampshire, and sister of Brigadier-General Noel Money CMG.[4]
In 1929 he married Ethel Helen Nesbitt Walker (1905–1953), daughter of Colonel Reginald Selby Walker, DSO (killed in action 1918),[1] having two sons and a daughter:
- Major St John Patrick Arcedeckne-Butler, Royal Signals, born 1930, married 1956 Jane (died 1983), daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Eric Massie MC, having issue.
- Lieutenant-Commander Michael Francis Peel Arcedeckne-Butler, RN, born 1933, married 1961 Jacqueline, daughter of Colonel George Leonard Carpenter-Garnier OBE DL, High Sheriff of Hampshire (1967), having issue,
- Timothy Garnier Arcedeckne-Butler, born 1962, married 1995 Nathalie, younger daughter of Muhammad Rawoo FCCA, having issue including an elder daughter, Emily Arcedeckne-Butler (born 1996), who became engaged in 2023 to marry Sam Gueterbock, heir-in-line to the barony of Berkeley.
- Nicola Catherine Arcedeckne-Butler, MW, born 1964, married 1996 Jonathan Longden, and has issue.[5]
- Christal Synolda Arcedeckne-Butler, born 1938, married 1961 Geoffrey William Medcalf JP (died 2009), having issue.
The Arcedeckne-Butlers are in remainder to the Dunboyne peerage title.[6]
Arms
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Who's Who 1951.
- ^ "The Air Force List, January 1939" (PDF). National Library of Scotland. 23 August 2018.
- ^ "1946 New Year Honours" (pdf). Supplement to The London Gazette. No. 37407. London Gazette (published 1 January 1946). 28 December 1945. p. 17. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
- ^ "Arcedeckne of Gortnamona - Burke's East Galway". Burke's East Galway. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
- ^ www.mastersofwine.org
- ^ www.burkespeerage.com
- ^ Burke, Bernard (1989). General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. London: Rosemary Pinches. p. 22.
Bibliography
[edit]- Smart, Nick (2005). Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War. Barnesley: Pen & Sword. ISBN 1844150496.
External links
[edit]- 1896 births
- 1959 deaths
- People from British Ceylon
- Butler dynasty
- English people of Irish descent
- Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
- Military personnel from Hampshire
- Royal Munster Fusiliers officers
- Royal Sussex Regiment officers
- Royal Corps of Signals officers
- British Army personnel of World War I
- British Army generals of World War II
- War Office personnel in World War II
- British Army major generals
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