Wednesday, 24 February 2016

1131 Richard Chamberlain



Constituency : Islington  West  1885-92

Richard  took  the  new  seat  of  Islington  West.

Richard  was  the  younger  brother  of  Joseph  Chamberlain.  He  was  educated  at  University  College  London . He  was  Mayor  of  Birmingham  from  1879  to  1880.

Unsurprisingly  Richard  went  with  his  brother  into  the  Liberal  Unionists.

He  died  in  1899  aged  59.

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