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    Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain KG (16 October 1863 – 16 March 1937) was a British statesman, son of Joseph Chamberlain and older half-brother of Prime Minister...
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    served in the Cabinet and despite trailing third after Walter Long and Austen Chamberlain, Law became leader when the two front-runners withdrew rather than...
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  • late-19th-century speeches of Joseph Chamberlain, probably erroneously transmitted and revised through his son Austen Chamberlain. Despite the phrase being widely...
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    marriages, of Nobel Peace Prize winner Austen Chamberlain and of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain made his career in Birmingham, first as...
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    National Service in 1916 and 1917, Chamberlain followed his father Joseph Chamberlain and elder half-brother Austen Chamberlain in becoming a Member of Parliament...
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    Beatrice was her parents' eldest child; the birth of her younger brother Austen Chamberlain took the life of her mother. Beatrice was devoted to her aunt, Caroline...
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    expenditure plans he had inherited from his predecessor Austen Chamberlain. The only income for which Chamberlain had over-budgeted was the duty from sales of alcohol...
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  • factor in Austen Chamberlain's failure to become the Unionist leader in the House of Commons in 1911. When Arthur Balfour resigned, Austen Chamberlain and Walter...
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  • hosted a political weekend to which he invited the anti-appeaser Austen Chamberlain, who found the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin complacent on defence...
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    important tenures of office by Austen Chamberlain (Foreign Secretary), Winston Churchill (at the Exchequer) and Neville Chamberlain (Health). The latter two...
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    considered in December 1916 (the job was given in the end to Neville Chamberlain). Instead he was initially left out of David Lloyd George's coalition...
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    elder, Austen Chamberlain, served first as Chancellor of the Exchequer and later as Foreign Secretary; while the younger, Neville Chamberlain, was prime...
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    succeeds Arthur Balfour as Lord Privy Seal. Austen Chamberlain succeeds Charles Ritchie at the Exchequer. Chamberlain's successor as Postmaster General is not...
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    March 1921, elected at a party meeting () (overall leader from 1916) Austen Chamberlain: 21 March 1921 – 23 October 1922, elected at a party meeting () Deputy...
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    Loch Mowat (ISBN 978-0416295108), pp. 84–85. The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letters by Austen Chamberlain (ISBN 978-0521551571), p. 161. Negotiations June–September...
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  • the Coalition, which resulted in its collapse, the resignation of Austen Chamberlain as party leader, and the invitation of Law to form a Government. The...
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    March 1921 – Austen Chamberlain succeeds Bonar Law as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the Commons. Sir Robert Horne succeeds Chamberlain at the Exchequer...
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    speaker. He was the first Leader of the Conservative Party since Austen Chamberlain (1921-22) to never assume the office of Prime Minister. After David...
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    guarantees. Upon hearing this proposal, British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain enthusiastically agreed. France realized that its occupation of the...
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    magazines mistakenly printed pictures of Joseph Chamberlain's sons, Austen Chamberlain and Neville Chamberlain, identifying them as the author of The Foundations...
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  • Conservatives then came into the LNU, notably Lord Robert Cecil and Austen Chamberlain who were both members of the LNU Executive Committee. However, most...
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  • then from August 1902 to 1905 as private secretary to Austen Chamberlain, at a time when Chamberlain was in the Cabinet, first as Postmaster General and...
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    first leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons since Austen Chamberlain nearly eighty years prior not to serve as prime minister. The election...
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    S. Austen Chamberlain and the Commitment to Europe: British Foreign Policy 1924-1929 (Routledge, 2014). Johnson, Gaynor. "Sir Austen Chamberlain, the...
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    Declaration of war Neville Chamberlain announces war with Germany, 3 September 1939. Problems playing this file? See media help. On 3 September 1939,...
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    previous year's Prize: Elihu Root (1912), Woodrow Wilson (1919), Austen Chamberlain (1925), Charles G. Dawes (1925), Frank B. Kellogg (1929), Norman Angell...
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  • Viscount Morley of Blackburn Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe Austen Chamberlain H. H. Asquith Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford (1868–1933)...
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    Bury". Self, Robert C., ed. (1995). The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letters: The Correspondence of Sir Austen Chamberlain with his Sisters Hilda and Ida, 1916–1937...
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    Press, 1981 page 26. Self, Robert The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letters: The Correspondence of Sir Austen Chamberlain with His Sisters Hilda and Ida, 1916-1937...
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  • (May 1917 – January 1919) Edward Carson (July 1917 – January 1918) Austen Chamberlain (April 1918 – October 1919) Eric Geddes (January – October 1919) Unlike...
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