Richard Chamberlain (MP for Islington West)
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Richard Chamberlain (7 July 1840 – 2 April 1899) was a Liberal and later Liberal Unionist politician in the United Kingdom. [1]
Life
[edit]The younger brother of Joseph Chamberlain,[2] he was born in Camberwell to Joseph Chamberlain (1796–1874) and Caroline Harben (1806–1875).
Chamberlain was Mayor of Birmingham from 1879 to 1880,[2] and later Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington West from 1885 to 1892.[1]
He was buried at Key Hill Cemetery, Hockley, Birmingham.[3]
Family
[edit]Chamberlain married firstly, in 1872, Mary Dawes, daughter of the ironmaster Henry William Dawes of Kenilworth, and secondly, in 1887, Rahmen Theodora Swinburne, daughter of Sir John Swinburne, 7th Baronet.[4]
His relative Robert Francis Martineau was also a City of Birmingham alderman and a member of the Birmingham University council.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Historical list of MPs: I[usurped]
- ^ a b Anderton, Thomas (1900). A Tale of One City: The New Birmingham. Birmingham: Midland Counties Herald. Retrieved 9 August 2007.
- ^ Manning, E. H. (1924) [1915]. Handbook of the Birmingham General Cemetery: together with biographical notes on those interred therein. Birmingham: Hudson & Son. p. 21. Archived from the original on 17 March 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
- ^ Burke, Edmund (1900). The Annual Register. Rivingtons. p. 146.
- ^ Alamac, British (1832). "British Alamac 1882". British Alamanac - The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge . R.F. Martineau - Council of Birmimgham University. Company of Stationers, London 1812. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
- 1840 births
- 1899 deaths
- Chamberlain family
- Politicians from Birmingham, West Midlands
- Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Liberal Unionist Party MPs for English constituencies
- UK MPs 1885–1886
- UK MPs 1886–1892
- Mayors of Birmingham, West Midlands
- Burials at Key Hill Cemetery
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