In 1916 he was promoted to Principal Clerk and in 1917 was appointed Director of the Overseas Division of the Foreign Office Department of Overseas Trade, a post he held until 1933, when he was promoted to Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Frederick the Great | Frederick | Frederick II | Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor | Frederick Russell Burnham | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Butler | Frederick Law Olmsted | Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor | Frederick Forsyth | Frederick Douglass | Frederick, Maryland | Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany | Gerard Butler | Frederick III | Frederick I | Frederick Delius | Judith Butler | Frederick William III of Prussia | John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony | Frederick III, German Emperor | West Chester Township, Butler County, Ohio | Samuel Butler | Frederick William IV of Prussia | Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg | Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach | Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor | Butler Derrick | Frederick, Prince of Wales | Butler County |
Alfred Butler was born in 1880 as the second son of Robert Frederick Butler of Lynford Gardens, Hampstead.