BUTT, DAME CLARA (1873-1936), English contralto singer, was born at Southwick, Sussex, on Feb. r, 1873. She was trained at the Royal College of Music, and made her debut in a students' performance of Gluck's Orfeo at the Lyceum theatre in 1892. She possessed a contralto voice of exceptional power and wide range, and became a public favourite as a ballad and ora torio singer. In 1900 she married the singer Kennerley Rumford (b. 187o), and with him sang constantly at concerts in all parts of Great Britain, also undertaking various long tours in the colonies. During the World War she devoted the proceeds of many of her concerts to war charities, and was in 1917 created D.B.E.