Beatrice, Ida, Hilda and Ethel Chamberlain

Beatrice Mary Chamberlain: 1862-1918, Daughter of the Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain and Harriet Chamberlain (ne Kenrick); sister of the Right Honourable Sir Austen Chamberlain, half-sister of Neville Chamberlain. She died in the influenza epidemic which closed the First World War.

(Florence) Ida Chamberlain: 1870-1943, Daughter of the Right Honourable Joseph and Florence [ne Kenrick]; sister of Neville Chamberlain, half-sister of the Right Honourable Sir Austen Chamberlain.

(Caroline) Hilda Chamberlain: 1871-1967, Daughter of the Right Honourable Joseph and Florence [ne Kenrick]; sister of Neville Chamberlain, half-sister of the Right Honourable Sir Austen Chamberlain.

Ethel Chamberlain, 1873-1905: daughter of the Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain and Florence (ne Kenrick); sister of Neville Chamberlain, half-sister of the Right Honourable Sir Austen Chamberlain. She was the only daughter to marry -she married Whitmore Lionel Richards (1868-1956) by whom she had a daughter, Hilda - but was the first to die, in a Swiss sanatorium with her sister Hilda at her side.

Reference: Guide to the Chamberlain Collection (The University of Birmingham Library, 1978 ). ; P.E.Marsh, The Chamberlain Papers from University of Birmingham Library. Series One: The Papers of Neville Chamberlain (Primary Source Microfilm, Reading, 2000).

From the guide to the Papers of Beatrice, Ida, Hilda and Ethel Chamberlain, 1857-1963, (University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections Department)