Background
CHAMBERLAIN, J. Austen was born in 1863. Son of Right Honourable J. Chamberlain, and Harriet, daughter of late Archibald Kenrick, Birmingham.
CHAMBERLAIN, J. Austen was born in 1863. Son of Right Honourable J. Chamberlain, and Harriet, daughter of late Archibald Kenrick, Birmingham.
Educated. Rugby; Trinity College, Cambridge. Civil Lord of Admiralty, 1895-1900. Financial Secretary to Treasury, 1900-1902.
Postmaster-General, 1902-1903.
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1903-1906. Professional Corporation, Member of Parliament (Liberal Unionist) East Worcestershire since 1892.
Liberal Unionist.
Clubs: Brooks’s, Athenaeum.
Spouse 1906, Ivy Muriel,daughter of late Colonel Henry Laurence Dimdas.