, opened in 2007 during Robin Butler's Mastership of
University College, Oxford After retiring from the Civil Service, Butler was Master of
University College, Oxford, 1998–2008. and was raised to the
peerage as
Baron Butler of Brockwell, of Herne Hill in the
London Borough of Lambeth. He was a non-executive Director of
HSBC Group from 1998 to 2008. He was also Chairman of the Corporate Sustainability Committee and the HSBC Global Education Trust. In 2011 he was elected
Master of the
Worshipful Company of Salters. In 2004, Lord Butler of Brockwell chaired the
Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction, widely known as the 'Butler Review', which reviewed the use of intelligence in the lead up to the
2003 Iraq War. The report concluded that some of the intelligence about Iraq's possession of
weapons of mass destruction was seriously flawed. The report also concluded, with regards to the so-called
Niger uranium forgeries, that the report Saddam's government was seeking uranium in Africa appeared 'well-founded'. Lord Butler of Brockwell in 2025 warned that the UK is moving towards a US-style system, in which new governments replace senior civil servants with political appointees. He said: "It seems to me that, overall, a clear pattern is emerging. We have moved to the American pattern of replacing senior civil servants with political appointees when the party of government changes. As one of my former colleagues said to me, civil servants in the centre of government have become an endangered species." ==Honours and arms==