| Authorised form of name | Chamberlain; Joseph (1836 - 1914) |
| Surname | Chamberlain |
| Forenames | Joseph |
| Dates | 1836 - 1914 |
| Nationality | British |
| Dates and places | Birth:
Camberwell Grove, London, England (08 July 1836)
Death:
Highbury, Birmingham (02 July 1914) |
| Activity | Education:
University College School, London
Career:
Worked in a screw manufactory, Birmingham; retired (aged 38); MP for Birmingham (1876-1885); MP for Birmingham West (1885-1894); President, Local Government Board (1886); Secretary for the Colonies (1895); retired from public life due to ill health (1906) |
| Royal Society activity | Membership:
Fellow
Election Date:
14/12/1882 |
| Relationships | Son of a boot and shoe maker and his wife Caroline, daughter of Henry Harben provision merchant.
Married: 1) (1861) Harriet, daughter of Archibald Kenrick of Edgbaston (she died 1863); 2) (1868) Florence, cousin of his first wife; 3) (1888) Mary, daughter of William Crowninshield Endicott, Judge, of USA; father of Arthur Neville Chamberlain (FRS 1938) |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Vanity Fair 27 January 1877, 01 December 1898 (group), 30 November 1893 (group), 07 March 1901, 29 January 1908
Notes:
Certificate of a Candidate of the privileged class for Election |
| Royal Society code | NA2876 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1882/20 | Chamberlain, Joseph: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/17/421 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to The Marquis of Salisbury [Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil], Arthur James Balfour, Joseph Chamberlain, George Joachim Goschen, Sir John Eldon Gorst, the Duke of Devonshire [Spencer Compton Cavendish], the Earl of Halsbury [Hardinge Stanley Giffard], and Viscount Richard Assheton Cross | 27 October 1898 |
| NLB/16/456 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Joseph Chamberlain, H.M. Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies | 6 April 1898 |