Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury GCMG GCVO OBE MC PC DL (6 March 1887 – 30 January 1971) was a British Conservative politician.

[8] Ramsbotham's department produced a set of proposals for reform, called “The Green Book” after its cover, in June 1941.

[9][10] The Green Book was supposedly confidential but was widely distributed among opinion formers, as Lester Smith put it, “in a blaze of secrecy”, and was later used as the basis for talks with Local Education Authorities (LEAs) and teaching unions.

[13] R. A. Butler later wrote in his memoirs that the Green Book failed on the issue of denominational teaching in state schools.

[15] The Green Book was soon overshadowed by the Five Points, the Protestant Churches' proposals on Religious Education in state schools which had been issued in February.

He used the March speech as an excuse to remove him – he was succeeded by Butler in July 1941 and sent to the House of Lords as a viscount.

His younger son, Sir Peter Ramsbotham, notably served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1974 to 1977.