Chamberlain family

Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain, (1836-1914) statesman: Educated at University College School; member of screw-manufacturing firm in Birmingham, 1854-1874; interested in social reform; chairman of National Education League of Birmingham, 1870; mayor of Birmingham 1873-1875; became president of the Board of Trade and entered the second Gladstone cabinet, 1880; M.P. West Birmingham, 1885; president of Local Government Board in third Gladstone cabinet, February-March 1886, resigning on introduction of the home rule bill which he opposed; secretary of state for colonies in third Salisbury cabinet, 1895-1903; chancellor of the University of Birmingham, 1901; retired from public life in 1906.

Mary Chamberlain: (1864-1957); ne Endicott; then Chamberlain. Nationality: American. 3rd wife of Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain, m. 1888; 2nd wife of Rev. William Hartley Carnegie, m. 1916; step-mother of the Right Honourable Sir Austen Chamberlain and Right Honourable Neville Chamberlain, biography: Diana Whitehall Laing, Mistress of Herself, Barre Publishers, Massachusetts, 1965.

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