Arthur Stanley George Butler was born in Winchester, Hampshire, England on 25 September 1888 and was articled to Edward John May (1853-1941) in London from 1909 to 1911. He also studied at the Architectural Association Schools. He was an improver with John Duke Coleridge (1879-1934) of J. & C. Coleridge in 1911-12, and an assistant to Martin Shaw Briggs (1882-1977) from 1912.
Butler qualified as an architect in 1912 and was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1913 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1924. He practised as an architect in London.
In addition to his work as an architect, Butler was a painter and exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1929, 1945, 1946 and 1950. He also exhibited at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in London. He was a member of the Chelsea.
Butler was the author of The substance of architecture (London : Constable, 2nd edition, 1932); John Francis Bentley : the architect of Westminster Cathedral (London: Burns & Oates, 1961); and The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens, 3 vols. (London: Country Life, 1950). He also wrote for Burlington Magazine.
Butler's address was given as 14 North Audley Street, Grosvenor Square, London and 73 Church Street, Kensington, London in 1913; 6 Old Queen Street, Westminster, London in 1923 and 1926; 4 Francis Street, Victoria Street, London in 1928 and 1939; 42 Bloomfield Terrace, London in 1950 and 1965.
He died in Wells next the Sea, Norfolk on 30 September 1965
A biographical file on Arthur Stanley George Butler is available on request at the Enquiry Desk, Royal Institute of British Architects Library, London
The reconstruction of Formosa Place, Cookham (1919): chapel, Saint David's Home, Castlebar Hill, Ealing, London (1919-20); Chapel for St. David's Homo, Ealing (1920); Chapel for the Sisters of Charity, Pinnorn (1921); Public Hall and Parish Institute, Now Priory, Kilburn (1921); reconstruction of Boarstall Tower, Oxon (1922); church, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire (1922); reconstruction of Bromham Hall, Bedsfordshire (1924); and the restoration of Kedleston (1923-25); City Drug Stores, Broad Street, Oxford (1928); alterations and additions to Wotton House, Buckinghamshire (1929); Little Horwood Manor, Winslow, Buckinghamshire (c.1930); church, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire (1935); alterations and additions to the library, University College, University of London, Gower Street, London (c.1935); Church of the Sacred Heart, Vicarage Road, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire (c.1936); 81, 83 & 85 Tufton Street, Westminster, London (.1938); and block of flats, Willis's Road, Gibraltar (c.1955)
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Who’s Who in Architecture 1923. Edited by Frederick Chatterton. London: The Architectural Press, 1923
Who’s Who in Architecture 1926. Edited by Frederick Chatterton. London: The Architectural Press, 1926
'"Auto-housing": a rural experiment’ [Architect: A. S. G. Butler.] Country Life 27 July 1945 p. 163
‘Obituary’. RIBA Journal vol. 73, July 1966 p. 301
‘Obituary’. The Builder vol. 209 8 October 1965 p. 768