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Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain was a British statesman who was first a radical Liberal, then a Liberal Unionist after opposing home rule for Ireland, and eventually was a leading imperialist in coalition with the Conservatives. He split both major British parties in the course of his career. He was the father, by different marriages, of Nobel Peace Prize winner Austen Chamberlain and of Prime Minister Neville…
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politics · British politician (1836–1914) · politician · also Joseph Chamberlain, Joe Chamberlain, Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Chamberlain
Born 8 July 1836 · Died 2 July 1914 · Q315999
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2026· 2 entries
“I believe that the British race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen... It is not enough to occupy great spaces of the world”
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2002· 1 entry
The Van Riebeeck Society published Secret History of the Jameson Raid and the South African Crisis, 1895–1902, a contemporary insider account by Robinson's secretary, Sir Graham Bower
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1916· 1 entry
Anglican clergyman William Hartley Carnegie (1859–1936)
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1914· 3 entries
Died 1914-07-02.
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“I say to Ireland what the Liberals or the Republicans of the North said to the Southern States of America—The union must be preserved. You cannot and shall not destroy it. Within these limits there is nothing which you may not ask and hope to obtain—equal laws, equal justice, equal opportunities, equal prosperity.”
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“For my part I do not feel any great horror at the idea...of the possible establishment of a Republic in this country. (Loud cheers.) I am quite certain that sooner or later it will come. (Renewed cheers and ‘Bravo!’) But...there is really not any great practical difference between a free constitutional monarchy such as ours and a free republic.”
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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· 4 entries
Election lost: 1906 general election.
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Career landmark: member of the 28th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1906–1910).
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Career landmark: Leader of the Opposition (1906–1906).
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Campaign: 1906 general election.
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1905· 1 entry
Chamberlain continued to campaign for tariff reform with zeal and energy
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1903· 2 entries
(in both cases, therefore, during his lifetime)
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Resigned from the Cabinet to campaign for tariff reform (i
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1902· 1 entry
“I consider the Unionist cause is hopeless at the next election, and we shall certainly lose the majority of the Liberal Unionists once and for all.”
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1900· 1 entry
And for the development of the Edgbaston campus
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1898· 1 entry
The Mende and Temne tribes of Sierra Leone launched the Hut Tax War against inland colonial expansion
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1897· 1 entry
Chamberlain was dismayed to learn that the French had expanded from Dahomey to Bussa, a town claimed by Goldie
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1895· 3 entries
Career landmark: Secretary of State for the Colonies (1895–1903).
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Career landmark: member of the 26th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1895–1900).
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Chamberlain sanctioned the conquest of the Ashanti Confederacy and its annexation to the Gold Coast
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1892· 3 entries
Career landmark: member of the 25th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1892–1895).
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“I have in the last five years seen more progress made with the practical application of my political programme than in all my previous life. I owe this result entirely to my former opponents, and all the opposition has come from my former friends.”
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Campaign: 1892 election and return to minority.
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1888· 1 entry
Associated with his National Radical Union
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1886· 3 entries
Career landmark: President of the Local Government Board (1886–1886).
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Career landmark: member of the 24th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1886–1892).
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Campaign: 1886 election and Unionist government.
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1885· 3 entries
Chamberlain sought to "utterly destroy the Whigs, and have a Radical government before many years are out
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Career landmark: member of the 23rd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1885–1886).
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Campaign: 1885 election.
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1884· 1 entry
“himself the spokesman of a class — a class to which he himself belongs — who toil not neither do they spin.”
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1880· 2 entries
Career landmark: President of the Board of Trade (1880–1885).
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Career landmark: member of the 22nd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1880–1885).
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1876· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 21st Parliament of the United Kingdom (1876–1880).
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1874· 1 entry
Was a fierce one; opponents accused him of republicanism and atheism and even threw dead cats at him on the speaking platform
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1873· 2 entries
Career landmark: Lord Mayor of Birmingham (1873–1876).
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A Liberal majority was elected to the Birmingham School Board, with Chamberlain as chairman
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1869· 2 entries
Ida in 1870, Hilda in 1871 and Ethel in 1873
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And proposed a school system funded by local rates and government grants, managed by local authorities subject to government inspection
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1868· 1 entry
Chamberlain married Harriet's cousin Florence Kenrick, daughter of Timothy Kenrick
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1867· 1 entry
Nearly doubling the electorate from 1,430,000 to 2,470,000
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1866· 1 entry
Earl Russell's Liberal administration submitted a Reform Bill to create 400,000 new voters, but the bill was opposed by the "Adullamite" Liberals for disrupting the social order, and criticised by Radicals for not conced
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1859· 1 entry
With the Volunteer movement in full swing, Chamberlain attempted to raise a Volunteer Rifle Company in Birmingham from the Edgbaston Debating Society, but his offer was not accepted by the County
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1836· 1 entry
Born 1836-07-08.
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