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Biography Neville Chamberlain was born to a political family, being the youngest son of Joseph Chamberlain, a Victorian Cabinet minister, and the half-brother of Austen, a Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Arthur Neville Chamberlain was born on 18 March 1869 in Birmingham into a political family. His father, Joseph, was an influential politician of the late 19th century and Neville's older half...

Joseph Chamberlain, father of Neville Chamberlain was born in a house called Southbourne, in the Edgbaston district of Birmingham, England, [1] as the only son of the second marriage of Joseph Chamberlain, who later became Mayor of Birmingham, and who also served as a Cabinet minister. Joseph Chamberlain had fathered two children by his first marriage, Beatrice and Austen. Joseph's first wife...

Arthur Neville Chamberlain was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940 and Leader of the Conservative Party from May 1937 to October 1940. He is known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938, ceding the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to...

Neville Chamberlain, prime minister of the United Kingdom from May 28, 1937, to May 10, 1940, whose name is identified with the policy of ‘appeasement’ toward Adolf Hitler’s Germany in the period immediately preceding World War II. Learn more about Chamberlain’s life and career in this article.

Neville Chamberlain was the British prime minister as Great Britain entered World War II. He is known for his policy of "appeasement" toward Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany.

Neville was born in Edgbaston, a district of Birmingham, England. His father was Joseph Chamberlain, an important politician. His half-brother (they had different mothers), Austen Chamberlain, also became a politician. Neville went to Rugby School. [1] He became interested in botany (plants), birds and fishing. He also loved music and literature (reading). He studied metallurgy at Mason...

Neville Chamberlain remains one of Britain’s more well-known, and often most maligned Prime Ministers. Famous for his policy of appeasement in the 1930s, he put off the inevitable for as long as possible, before declaring war on Germany in September 1939. Whilst Chamberlain’s handling of late 1930s foreign relations is ultimately what he is most remembered for, he was a staunch advocate...

Neville Chamberlain intended to leave a legacy of great domestic reform. Much of his professional life, in local government, as health minister, and as chancellor, was dedicated to reform. But as Prime Minister, Chamberlain was defined by foreign affairs and his failed ‘appeasement’ strategy, that had been designed to prevent war.