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Joseph Austen Chamberlain

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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Also Known As

Austen Chamberlain

Born: 16 October 1863

Died: 16 March 1937

Knighted - 1925

Member of Privy Council - 1902

son of Harriet Kenrick

half-brother of Arthur Neville Chamberlain

son of Joseph Chamberlain

husband of Ivy Muriel Dundas

cousin of Elizabeth Pakenham

Education

Rugby School

Trinity College, Cambridge

Appointments

Civil Lord of the Admiralty	2 July 1895	1900
Financial Secretary to the Treasury	1900	1902
Postmaster-General	11 August 1902	9 October 1903
Chancellor of the Exchequer	9 October 1903	4 December 1905
Secretary of State for India	15 May 1915	17 July 1917
Minister without Portfolio	April 1918	10 January 1919
Chancellor of the Exchequer	10 January 1919	1 April 1921
Lord Privy Seal	1 April 1921	23 October 1922
Leader of the House of Commons	1 April 1921	23 October 1922
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	6 November 1924	4 June 1929
First Lord of the Admiralty	24 August 1931	5 November 1931

Elections fought

30 March 1892	Eastern Worcestershire	Liberal Unionist Party	Unopposed
9 July 1892	Eastern Worcestershire	Liberal Unionist Party	5,111	67.00
15 July 1895	Eastern Worcestershire	Liberal Unionist Party	Unopposed
3 October 1900	Eastern Worcestershire	Liberal Unionist Party	Unopposed
11 August 1902 Resignation of Rt Hon Austen Chamberlain on appointment as Postmaster-General.
15 August 1902	Eastern Worcestershire	Liberal Unionist Party	Unopposed
22 January 1906	Eastern Worcestershire	Liberal Unionist Party	10,129	63.74
24 January 1910	Eastern Worcestershire	Liberal Unionist Party	12,644	64.51
7 December 1910	Eastern Worcestershire	Liberal Unionist Party	Unopposed
7 July 1914 Resignation of Rt Hon Austen Chamberlain.
14 July 1914	Birmingham West	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed
1918 Resignation of Rt Hon Austen Chamberlain on appointment as Minister without Portfolio.
25 April 1918	Birmingham West	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed
14 December 1918	Birmingham West	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	Unopposed
March 1921 Resignation of Rt Hon Austen Chamberlain on appointment as Lord Privy Seal.
31 March 1921	Birmingham West	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	Unopposed
15 November 1922	Birmingham West	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,405	61.61
6 December 1923	Birmingham West	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,940	58.27
29 October 1924	Birmingham West	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,801	67.40
30 May 1929	Birmingham West	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,862	50.06
27 October 1931	Birmingham West	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,448	68.12
14 November 1935	Birmingham West	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,530	64.35
16 March 1937 Death of Rt Hon Sir Austen Chamberlain.