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Ads by Google      Austen Family History - Home In January 2004 a significant break through occured with the arrival of a copy of Joseph Austen Chamberlain's "Notes of the families of Chamberlain and Harben". This book, which is available for sale on this website as an eBook, positively identifies Robert Austen, (1710-1786), as the oldest 'Austen' found to date, his daughter, Mary Austen, is pictured below. Latest edition to the family, Henry Bryden Austen Sinclair, born 23 August 2002. http://www.austenfamily.org      Austen Chamberlain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Neville Chamberlain, Austen was first elected to parliament as a Liberal Unionist in 1892. Sir Austen Chamberlain ( 1863 – 1937) was a British statesman and politician. Winston Churchill claims in his memoirs that had this crisis ended differently Sir Austen may have been called upon as a respected statesman to form a government but this view is not widely supported. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austen_Chamberlain      Search Encyclopedia.com Chamberlain, Neville Chamberlain, Neville (Arthur Neville Chamberlain), 1869-1940, British statesman; son of Joseph Chamberlain and half brother of Sir Austen Chamberlain. Chamberlain, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Sir Austen (Joseph Austen Chamberlain)chām´berlĬn, 1863-1937, British statesman; son of Joseph Chamberlain and half brother of Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain, Wilt Chamberlain, Wilt (Wilton Norman Chamberlain), 1936-99, American basketball player, b. http://www.encyclopedia.com/searchpool.asp?target=@DOCTITLE%20Chamberlain%20...      Notes for 'Origin of the Treaty of Locarno' Austen Chamberlain was Foreign Secretary from 1924 to 1929 in the second Baldwin administration. Chamberlain to D'Abernon, 26 Jun. 1925, AC 52/280, Austen Chamberlain Papers; D'Abernon to Chamberlain, 11 Jul. 1925, AC 52/283. Chamberlain to Ida Chamberlain, 28 Dec. 1924, AC5/1/343; Chamberlain to Crewe, 6 Feb. 1925, AC 52/186, Austen Chamberlain Papers. http://www.history.ac.uk/ejournal/notesart2.html   (1182 words)      Records of Iraq 1914-1966, contents vol. 5, Archive Editions Mr Stonehewer-Bird, Jeddah, to Sir Austen Chamberlain, 6 February and 7 February 1929, enclosing correspondence with Ibn Sa'ud; Sir Gilbert Clayton, Baghdad, to Mr Amery, London, 16 March 1929 Sir G. Clerk, Constantinople, to Sir Austen Chamberlain, London, 15 February 1929, enclosing memorandum on Turkish frontier situation Mr Jakins, Jeddah, to Sir Austen Chamberlain, London, enclosing text of Proclamation, 18 April 1929 http://www.archiveeditions.co.uk/Leafcopy/820fullcont05.html   (2970 words)      Neville Chamberlain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chamberlain was the eldest son of the second marriage of Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Mayor of Birmingham, and a half-brother to Austen, later Sir Austen Chamberlain. Neville and Austen were sent to the Americas to investigate the island of Andros, which seemed a good prospect for a plantation, but the crops failed in the unsuitable environment, and by 1896 the business was shut down at a heavy loss. Chamberlain and Baldwin had a strong political partnership throughout their fourteen years at the height of politics together, but Chamberlain was frustrated by Baldwin's sense of detachment and disinterest in the detail of policy, while Baldwin found Chamberlain's low opinion of the Labour Party disappointing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain   (7957 words)      Neville Chamberlain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chamberlain was the eldest son of the second marriage of Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Mayor of Birmingham, and a half-brother to Austen, later Sir Austen Chamberlain. Chamberlain and Baldwin had a strong political partnership throughout their fourteen years at the height of politics together, but Chamberlain was frustrated by Baldwin's sense of detachment and disinterest in the detail of policy, while Baldwin found Chamberlain's low opinion of the Labour Party disappointing. Chamberlain is perhaps the most ill-regarded British Prime Minister of the 20th century, largely due to his policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany regarding the abandonment of Czechoslovakia to Hitler at Munich in 1938. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain   (7726 words)      Neville Chamberlain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chamberlain was the eldest son of the second marriage of Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Mayor of Birmingham, and a half-brother to Austen, later Sir Austen Chamberlain. Chamberlain and Baldwin had a strong political partnership throughout their fourteen years at the height of politics together, but Chamberlain was frustrated by Baldwin's sense of detachment and disinterest in the detail of policy, while Baldwin found Chamberlain's low opinion of the Labour Party disappointing. Chamberlain is perhaps the most ill-regarded British Prime Minister of the 20th century, largely because of his policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany regarding the abandonment of Czechoslovakia to Hitler at Munich in 1938. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain   (7967 words)      Neville Chamberlain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chamberlain was the eldest son of the second marriage of Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Mayor of Birmingham, and a half-brother to Austen, later Sir Austen Chamberlain. Chamberlain and Baldwin had a strong political partnership throughout their fourteen years at the height of politics together, but Chamberlain was frustrated by Baldwin's sense of detachment and disinterest in the detail of policy, while Baldwin found Chamberlain's low opinion of the Labour Party disappointing. Chamberlain was a Unitarian and as such did not accept even nominally the basic trinitarian belief of the Church of England, the first Prime Minister to officially reject this doctrine since the Duke of Grafton. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain   (7967 words)      Neville Chamberlain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chamberlain was the eldest son of the second marriage of Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Mayor of Birmingham, and a half-brother to Austen, later Sir Austen Chamberlain. Chamberlain and Baldwin had a strong political partnership throughout their fourteen years at the height of politics together, but Chamberlain was frustrated by Baldwin's sense of detachment and disinterest in the detail of policy, while Baldwin found Chamberlain's low opinion of the Labour Party disappointing. Chamberlain is perhaps the most ill-regarded British Prime Minister of the 20th century, largely because of his policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany regarding the abandonment of Czechoslovakia to Hitler at Munich in 1938. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain   (7957 words)      Neville Chamberlain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chamberlain was the eldest son of the second marriage of Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Mayor of Birmingham, and a half-brother to Austen, later Sir Austen Chamberlain. Chamberlain and Baldwin had a strong political partnership throughout their fourteen years at the height of politics together, but Chamberlain was frustrated by Baldwin's sense of detachment and disinterest in the detail of policy, while Baldwin found Chamberlain's low opinion of the Labour Party disappointing. Chamberlain is perhaps the most ill-regarded British Prime Minister of the 20th century, largely due to his policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany regarding the abandonment of Czechoslovakia to Hitler at Munich in 1938. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain   (7713 words)      AllRefer.com - Sir Austen Chamberlain (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia Sir Austen Chamberlain (Joseph Austen Chamberlain)[chAm´burlin] Pronunciation Key, 1863–1937, British statesman; son of Joseph Chamberlain and half brother of Neville Chamberlain. See his Down the Years (1935), Politics from Inside (1936), and Seen in Passing (1937); Sir Charles Petrie, Life and Letters of Sir Austen Chamberlain (1939–40); biography by D. Dutton (1985). From 1924 to 1929, Chamberlain was foreign secretary under Stanley Baldwin. http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/C/ChamberlA.html   (297 words)      Austen Family History - eBook Note, the picture of Joseph Austen Chamberlain on this page is from August 1900 and is not in the eBook. by Joseph Austen Chamberlain, privately published in 1915. A surprisingly intimate look into the personal and family lives of Joseph Austen Chamberlain's grand-parents and ancestors. http://www.austenfamily.org/eBook.html   (367 words)      Foreign & Commonwealth Office Nine Gentlemen of Locarno: Pen Portraits of the Protagonists The eldest son of Liberal politician Joseph Chamberlain, and half brother of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Austen Chamberlain was born in Birmingham in 1863. The British Ambassador at Berlin, Lord D'Abernon, recalled Stresemann's physical resemblance to Winston Churchill, his capacity for hard work and sense of humour, while Austen Chamberlain claimed that Stresemann was 'the greatest German since Bismarck'. I-II (London, 1939); David Dutton, Austen Chamberlain: Gentleman in Politics (Bolton, 1985). http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029395852   (1654 words)      Austen Chamberlain - definition of Austen Chamberlain in Encyclopedia The son of Birmingham's Mayor Joseph Chamberlain and older half-brother of Neville Chamberlain, Austen was first elected to parliament in 1892. Sir Austen Chamberlain (1863- 1937) was a British statesman and politician. Chamberlain is often cited as being the only modern leader of the Conservative Party not to become Prime Minister until William Hague and Iain Duncan Smith, but this is technically inaccurate as he was not overall leader. http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Austen_Chamberlain   (573 words)      Sir Austen Chamberlain Winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Peace Sir Austen Chamberlain - Biography (submitted by Davis) Sir Austen Chamberlain – Biography (submitted by Jimmi) Sir Austen Chamberlain Winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Peace http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/1925a.html   (58 words)      The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letters : The Correspondence of Sir Austen Chamberlain with his Sisters Hilda and Ida, 1916-1937 (Camden Fifth Series): Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data "The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letter is a carefully edited work, which focuses on the major political figures and events of the era. This book is a collection of the diary letters of Austen Chamberlain from 1916 to 1937. The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letters : The Correspondence of Sir Austen Chamberlain with his Sisters Hilda and Ida, 1916-1937 (Camden Fifth Series) http://www.worldwar1.co.uk/books-plain/0521551579.html   (298 words)      Sir Austen Chamberlain Winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Peace Sir Austen Chamberlain Winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Peace The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letters (submitted by Tanya Felp) Sir Austen Chamberlain - Biography (submitted by Davis) http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/1925a.html   (58 words)      Austen Family History - Harben According to Sir Austen Chamberlain's 1915 book "Notes of the families of Chamberlain and Harben" the Harben's believed that they originated from Sommerset and then migrated to Sussex in the 17th Century. Joseph Austen Chamberlain, Sir Austen, (1863-1937), Chancellor of the Exchequer, Leader of the Conservative Party, Foreign Secretary, Finalised the Locaino Treaty, a mutual agreement between GB, Germany, France, Italy and Belgium to settle disputes by peaceful means - for which he shared a Nobel Peace Prize with the US Vice-president. This was the school Charlotte Bronte was sent to and, according to "Notes on the families of Chamberlain and Harben", Matron Harben was apparently the model for the Matron in "Jane Eyre". http://www.austenfamily.org/harben_main.html   (714 words)      AllRefer.com - Sir Austen Chamberlain (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia Sir Austen Chamberlain (Joseph Austen Chamberlain)[chAm´burlin] Pronunciation Key, 1863–1937, British statesman; son of Joseph Chamberlain and half brother of Neville Chamberlain. See his Down the Years (1935), Politics from Inside (1936), and Seen in Passing (1937); Sir Charles Petrie, Life and Letters of Sir Austen Chamberlain (1939–40); biography by D. Dutton (1985). The Locarno Pact of 1925 was largely his work, and in the same year he was awarded (with Charles C. Dawes) the Nobel Peace Prize. http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/C/ChamberlA.html   (714 words)      Sir Austen Chamberlain - Biography Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain (October 16, 1863-March 17, 1937) was the eldest son of Joseph Chamberlain, the great British statesman known as the «Empire-builder» he was a half-brother of Neville Chamberlain, prime minister from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain, Sir Austen, Politics from Inside: An Epistolary Chronicle, 1906-1914. Stern-Rubarth, Edgar, Three Men Tried: Austen Chamberlain, Stresemann, Briand and Their Fight for a New Europe. http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1925/chamberlain-bio.html   (714 words)      FreisslerSoft Books Chamberlain The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letters: The Correspondences of Sir Austen Chamberlain With His Sisters Hilda and Ida, 1916-1937 (Camde Fifth, Vol 5) Chamberlain, Germany and Japan, 1933-4 (Studies in Miltary and Strategic History) Chamberlain and Appeasement: British Policy and the Coming of the Second World War http://www.freisslersoft.com/ch/Book_Chamberlain.html   (714 words)      Joseph Chamberlain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In partnership with Joseph Nettlefold, Chamberlain was to help the screwmaking firm, soon known as Nettlefold and Chamberlain, to become a commercial success, and by 1874 when Chamberlain retired from the firm, the company was exporting its products to the United States, Europe, India, Japan, Canada and Australia. Although Ritchie made his opinions known, the Cabinet was generally favourable towards Chamberlain's proposal when it was raised on 21 October. Chamberlain was shocked to find on 17 March that the majority of the Cabinet was in agreement with Ritchie, and that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had reversed the decision reached last November. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Chamberlain   (714 words)      FreisslerSoft Books Chamberlain The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letters: The Correspondences of Sir Austen Chamberlain With His Sisters Hilda and Ida, 1916-1937 (Camde Fifth, Vol 5) Chamberlain, Germany and Japan, 1933-4 (Studies in Miltary and Strategic History) Separated by a Common Language: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Anglo-American Relations 1933-1939:The Roosevelt-Chamberlain Rivalry http://www.freisslersoft.com/ch/Book_Chamberlain.html   (771 words)      Neville Chamberlain --  Encyclopædia Britannica As British foreign secretary from 1924 to 1929, Austen Chamberlain helped negotiate the Locarno Pact, a group of treaties intended to secure peace in western Europe by guaranteeing the boundaries of the pact's seven signatory nations, providing for their collective security, and paving the way for the entry of Germany into the League of Nations. The son of the statesman Joseph Chamberlain and younger half brother of Sir Austen Chamberlain, he managed his father's… The pact gained for Chamberlain a share (with Vice President Charles G. Dawes of the United States) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1925. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9022309   (669 words)      Sir Austen Chamberlain - Biography Austen Chamberlain's forty-five year career in the House of Commons may be divided into two periods: the first from his entry into the House in 1892 to 1922 when Lloyd George resigned as prime minister; and the second from 1922 to his death in 1937. Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain (October 16, 1863-March 17, 1937) was the eldest son of Joseph Chamberlain, the great British statesman known as the «Empire-builder» he was a half-brother of Neville Chamberlain, prime minister from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain filled this post from 1919 to 1921 with distinction, paying the enormous debts accumulated during the war, maintaining a stable currency, and strengthening the national credit. http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1925/chamberlain-bio.html   (1061 words)      Joseph Chamberlain (July 8, 1836 - July 3, 1914) was a British politician. In his early years he was a Liberal and a campaigner for educational reform, and became President of the Board of Trade. He was the father of Austen Chamberlain and Neville Chamberlain. The divided Unionists were trounced in the 1905 general election, and Chamberlain was the favourite to take over as their leader. Joseph Chamberlain was born in London to a successful shoemaker. http://www.birminghamuk.com/wikipedia/Joseph_Chamberlain.htm   (879 words)      Sir Austen Chamberlain - Biography Austen Chamberlain's forty-five year career in the House of Commons may be divided into two periods: the first from his entry into the House in 1892 to 1922 when Lloyd George resigned as prime minister; and the second from 1922 to his death in 1937. Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain (October 16, 1863-March 17, 1937) was the eldest son of Joseph Chamberlain, the great British statesman known as the «Empire-builder» he was a half-brother of Neville Chamberlain, prime minister from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain filled this post from 1919 to 1921 with distinction, paying the enormous debts accumulated during the war, maintaining a stable currency, and strengthening the national credit. http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1925/chamberlain-bio.html   (1069 words)      Neville Chamberlain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia After working in business and local government, and a short spell as Director of National Service in 1916 and 1917, Chamberlain followed his father, Joseph Chamberlain, and older half-brother, Austen Chamberlain, becoming a Member of Parliament in the 1918 general election aged 49. Chamberlain is perhaps the most ill-regarded British Prime Minister of the 20th century, largely because of his policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany regarding the abandonment of Czechoslovakia to Hitler at Munich in 1938. Chamberlain's political legacy is defined by his dealings with and appeasement of Nazi Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain   (8017 words)      Afghanistan Strategic Intelligence: British Records 1919-1970, volume 1 contents, Archive Editions               Kabul Diary No. 1, 7 January 1928; 28 January; Mr Gould, Kabul, to Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, enclosing Kabul Diary, 3 March; 17 March; 24 March 1928               Cypher telegram, Mr Gould, Kabul to Government of India, 2 June 1927, on relations within ruling family; Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary to Shuja-ed-Dowleh Khan, 26 July 1927 Oliphant, 25 March 1928, relating a conversation between the Acting Afghan Foreign Minister, Ghulam Sadiq Khan and Foreign Secretary, Sir Austen Chamberlain, confirming British goodwill http://www.archiveeditions.co.uk/Leafcopy/855V1.htm   (8017 words)

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