Richard Chamberlain (MP for Islington West)

For the 15th-century MP, see Richard Chamberlain (MP for Calne).

Richard Chamberlain (7 July 1840 – 2 April 1899) was a Liberal and later Liberal Unionist politician in the United Kingdom. [1]

Life

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

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

1. Historical list of MPs: I^[usurped]
2. Anderton, Thomas (1900). A Tale of One City: The New Birmingham. Birmingham: Midland Counties Herald. Retrieved 9 August 2007.
3. 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.
4. Burke, Edmund (1900). The Annual Register. Rivingtons. p. 146.
5. 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.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Islington West 1885–1892	Succeeded by Thomas Lough