Austen Chamberlain
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The Right Honourable Sir Austen Chamberlain KG |
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| First Lord of the Admiralty | |
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In office 24 August – 5 November 1931 |
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| Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald |
| Preceded by | A.V. Alexander |
| Succeeded by | Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell |
| Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 3 November 1924 – 4 June 1929 |
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| Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin |
| Preceded by | Ramsay MacDonald |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Henderson |
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Lord Privy Seal Leader of the House of Commons |
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In office 1 April 1921 – 23 October 1922 |
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| Prime Minister | David Lloyd George |
| Preceded by | Andrew Bonar Law |
| Succeeded by | Lord Robert Cecil |
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
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In office 9 October 1903 – 4 December 1905 |
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| Prime Minister | Arthur Balfour |
| Preceded by | Charles Thomson Ritchie |
| Succeeded by | H. H. Asquith |
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In office 10 January 1919 – 1 April 1921 |
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| Prime Minister | David Lloyd George |
| Preceded by | Andrew Bonar Law |
| Succeeded by | Sir Robert Horne |
| Secretary of State for India | |
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In office 25 May 1915 – 17 July 1917 |
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| Prime Minister |
H. H. Asquith David Lloyd George |
| Preceded by | The Marquess of Crewe |
| Succeeded by | Edwin Samuel Montagu |
| Postmaster-General | |
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In office 11 August 1902 – 9 October 1903 |
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| Prime Minister | Arthur Balfour |
| Preceded by | The Marquess of Londonderry |
| Succeeded by | Lord Stanley |
| Personal details | |
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Joseph Austen Chamberlain 16 October 1863 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England |
| Died | 17 March 1937 (aged 73) London, England |
| Nationality | British |
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Liberal Unionist Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Ivy Muriel Dundas (m. 1906; his death 1937) |
| Education | Trinity College, Cambridge Sciences Po Paris |
| Religion | Unitarian |
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Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain KG (16 October 1863 – 17 March 1937) was a British , son of Joseph Chamberlain and half-brother of Neville Chamberlain.
He stood for the Liberal Unionist party, which merged with the Conservatives in 1912, and led the Conservatives in the Commons in 1921–22. As Foreign Secretary, he negotiated the Locarno Pact (1925), aimed at preventing war between France and Germany, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was one of the few MPs supporting Winston Churchill's appeals for rearmament against the German threat in the 1930s.
Austen Chamberlain was born in Birmingham, the second child and eldest son of Joseph Chamberlain, then a rising industrialist and political radical, later Mayor of Birmingham and a dominant figure in Liberal and Unionist politics at the end of the 19th century. His mother, the former Harriet Kenrick, died in childbirth, leaving his father so shaken that for almost 25 years he maintained a distance from his first-born son. In 1868, 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.
Austen was educated first at Rugby School, before passing on to Trinity College, Cambridge. While at Trinity College, he became a lifelong friend of F. S. Oliver, a future advocate of Imperial Federation and, after 1909, a prominent member of the Round Table movement. Chamberlain made his first political address in 1884 at a meeting of the university's Political Society and was vice-president of the Cambridge Union Society.
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