Chamberlain, Sir (Joseph) Austen (1863–1937), politician

by D. J. Dutton

  • Early political career
  • The campaign for tariff reform
  • First chance of the leadership
  • Ireland and the war
  • The post-war coalition
  • Party leader
  • Out of office
  • The foreign secretaryship
  • The importance of Locarno
  • The Foreign Office after Locarno
  • Elder statesman
  • Outside interests
  • Final years and death

References

See also

Themes

  • Secretaries of state for foreign affairs
  • Chancellors of the exchequer
  • Nobel prize-winners in the Oxford DNB
  • general election of 1906
  • Leaders of the Conservative and the Conservative and Unionist parties

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  • Bibliography of British and Irish history
  • Churchill Archive
  • National Portrait Gallery
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