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Austen Chamberlain
Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain was a British statesman, Nobel Peace Prize winner, son of Joseph Chamberlain and older half-brother of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 45 years, as Chancellor of the Exchequer (twice) and was briefly Conservative Party leader before serving as Foreign Secretary.
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politics · British politician (1863–1937) · politician · statesperson · foreign minister · also Austen Chamberlain, Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, Chamberlain
Born 16 October 1863 · Died 17 March 1937 · Q188999
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[I believe in] the throne...parliamentary institutions...private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state...equity in the distribution of public burdens and strict maintenance of public faith with the creditors of the state [and] a fresh guarantee of peace by an alliance with France and...Belgium for the defence of our common interests against unprovoked attack.
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1937· 4 entries
Died 1937-03-17.
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“[I believe in] the throne...parliamentary institutions...private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state...equity in the distribution of public burdens and strict maintenance of public faith with the creditors of the state [and] a fresh guarantee of peace by an alliance with France and...Belgium for the defence of our common interests against unprovoked attack.”
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“I wonder how many members can realise what [the remilitarisation of the Rhineland] means not merely to the excited politicians in Paris, but to the French peasant in his hovel, to the mother who feels that once again the...peril has come near and that once again her children will be mowed down by the scythe of war.”
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“We have a peculiar interest because the true defence of our country, owing to scientific development, is now no longer the Channel...but upon the Rhine.”
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1936· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Lyon (1936).
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1935· 4 entries
For the post of Foreign Secretary but was passed over once the Abyssinia Crisis was over for being too old for the job
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Career landmark: member of the 37th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1935–1937).
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Stanley Baldwin's government produced a White Paper and announced modest rearmament
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The government faced a parliamentary rebellion over the Hoare-Laval Pact; his opposition to the vote of censure is widely believed to have been instrumental in saving the government from defeat on the floor of the House
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1931· 4 entries
Career landmark: First Lord of the Admiralty (1931–1931).
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Career landmark: member of the 36th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1931–1935).
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But resigned as a result of his actions over the Invergordon Mutiny
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As First Lord of the Admiralty in Ramsay MacDonald's first National Government but soon retired later that year after his actions in regards to the Invergordon Mutiny
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1929· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 35th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1929–1931).
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1925· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for his crucial role in bringing about the Locarno Treaty.
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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1925).
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Awarded Cross of Liberty 1st Division, 3rd Class (1925).
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1924· 2 entries
Career landmark: Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1924–1929).
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Career landmark: member of the 34th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1924–1929).
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1923· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 33rd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1923–1924).
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1922· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 32nd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1922–1923).
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1921· 1 entry
Career landmark: Lord Privy Seal (1921–1922).
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1919· 1 entry
Career landmark: Chancellor of the Exchequer (1919–1921).
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1918· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 31st Parliament of the United Kingdom (1918–1922).
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1915· 1 entry
Including the loss of the British garrison during the Siege of Kut, Chamberlain resigned his post in July 1917; as the minister ultimately responsible, the fault lay with him
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1914· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 30th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1914–1918).
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1911· 1 entry
And Walter Long were due to compete for the leadership of the Conservative Party (in succession to Arthur Balfour), but both withdrew in favour of Bonar Law rather than risk a party split on a close result
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1910· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the 30th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1910–1914).
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Career landmark: member of the 29th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1910–1910).
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1906· 3 entries
Austen became the leading tariff reformer in the House of Commons
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Career landmark: member of the 28th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1906–1910).
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Chamberlain married Ivy Muriel Dundas (died 1941), daughter of Colonel Henry Dundas
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1903· 1 entry
Career landmark: Chancellor of the Exchequer (1903–1905).
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1902· 1 entry
Career landmark: Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (1902–1903).
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1895· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 26th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1895–1900).
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1892· 1 entry
Sitting for the seat of East Worcestershire
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1888· 1 entry
Lured largely by the prize of a parliamentary constituency
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1884· 1 entry
At a meeting of the university's Political Society and was vice-president of the Cambridge Union
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1868· 1 entry
His father married Harriet's cousin, Florence, and had further children, the oldest of whom, Neville, would become Prime Minister in the year of Austen's death
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1863· 1 entry
Born 1863-10-16.
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