Richard Chamberlain (MP for Islington West)
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Richard Chamberlain (7 July 1840 – 2 April 1899) was a Liberal and later Liberal Unionist politician in the United Kingdom. {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231414/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Icommons.htm Historical list of MPs: I]}}
Life
The younger brother of Joseph Chamberlain,{{cite book |last=Anderton |first=Thomas |title=A Tale of One City: The New Birmingham |url=https://www.fulltextarchive.com/page/A-Tale-of-One-City-The-New-Birmingham1/#p115 |access-date=2007-08-09 |year=1900 |publisher=Midland Counties Herald |location=Birmingham }} he was born in Camberwell to Joseph Chamberlain (1796–1874) and Caroline Harben (1806–1875).
Chamberlain was Mayor of Birmingham from 1879 to 1880, and later Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington West from 1885 to 1892.
He died at age 58 and was buried at Key Hill Cemetery, Hockley, Birmingham.{{cite book |title=Handbook of the Birmingham General Cemetery: together with biographical notes on those interred therein |first=E. H. |last=Manning |publisher=Hudson & Son |place=Birmingham |orig-year=1915 |year=1924 |page=21 |url=http://www.jqrt.org/ibooks/khhandbook/#/14/zoomed |access-date=2 November 2016 |archive-date=17 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317000440/http://www.jqrt.org/ibooks/khhandbook/#/14/zoomed |url-status=dead }}
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.{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Edmund |title=The Annual Register |date=1900 |publisher=Rivingtons |page=146 |language=en}}
His relative Robert Francis Martineau was also a City of Birmingham alderman and a member of the Birmingham University council.{{cite web|last=Alamac|first=British|title=British Alamac 1882|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cqAFAAAAQAAJ&q=martineau+lupton++chamberlain&pg=PA65|work=British Alamanac - The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge . R.F. Martineau - Council of Birmimgham University|year=1832|publisher=Company of Stationers, London 1812|access-date=March 8, 2012}}
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Category:Politicians from Birmingham, West Midlands
Category:Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Category:Liberal Unionist Party MPs for English constituencies
Category:Mayors of Birmingham, West Midlands
Category:Burials at Key Hill Cemetery
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