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Austen Chamberlain

1863 - 1937

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Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain (16 October 1863 – 16 March 1937) was a British statesman, son of Joseph Chamberlain and older half-brother of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 45 years, as Chancellor of the Exchequer (twice) and was briefly Conservative Party leader before serving as Foreign Secretary. Brought up to be the political heir of his father, whom he physically resembled, he was elected to Parliament as a Liberal Unionist at a by-election in 1892. He held office in the Unionist coalition governments of 1895–1905, remaining in the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1903–05) after his father resigned in 1903 to campaign for Tariff Reform. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Austen Chamberlain is the 2,246th most popular politician (down from 2,149th in 2019), the 554th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 460th in 2019) and the 117th most popular British Politician.

Austen Chamberlain is most famous for being the British Foreign Secretary during World War I. He was instrumental in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles.

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Among politicians, Austen Chamberlain ranks 2,246 out of 19,576. Before him are Edmund I, Mário Soares, Tang of Shang, Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Kenneth MacAlpin, and René Coty. After him are Faustina the Younger, Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Wang Jingwei, Adnan Menderes, Felix Yusupov, and Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia.

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Among people born in 1863, Austen Chamberlain ranks 18. Before him are David Lloyd George, Henry van de Velde, Carlos I of Portugal, Franz Stuck, George Herbert Mead, and Joaquín Sorolla. After him are Gaston Doumergue, Wilhelm Marx, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Alexandre Yersin, Max Wolf, and Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. Among people deceased in 1937, Austen Chamberlain ranks 20. Before him are Gustaf Dalén, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Yevgeny Zamyatin, J. M. Barrie, and Gerda Taro. After him are Gaston Doumergue, Andrew Mellon, Karol Szymanowski, Jean Harlow, Charles-Marie Widor, and Wallace Carothers.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Austen Chamberlain ranks 554 out of 8,785. Before him are Sam Neill (1947), Mary Read (1695), Pope Adrian IV (1100), James IV of Scotland (1473), Edmund I (921), and Kenneth MacAlpin (810). After him are Harry Kroto (1939), Dave Murray (1956), Mordred (null), Harold Pinter (1930), Charlie Watts (1941), and Harold Wilson (1916).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Austen Chamberlain ranks 117. Before him are Cynric (450), Sweyn II of Denmark (1020), Edmund Crouchback (1245), James IV of Scotland (1473), Edmund I (921), and Kenneth MacAlpin (810). After him are Harold Wilson (1916), Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1919), John Turner (1929), Domnall mac Ailpín (812), David II of Scotland (1324), and Edwin of Northumbria (586).

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