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Joseph Chamberlain married Harriet Kenrick (1835-1863) in 1861. She was the daughter of Birmingham industrialist Archibald Kenrick of Berrow Court, Edgbaston. The family were Unitarians and, like Chamberlain, worshipped at the Church of the Messiah on Broad Street. Joseph got to know Harriet through his friendship with her brother, William, who was a fellow member of the Birmingham and ...
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Joseph Chamberlain (8 July 1836 – 2 July 1914) was a British statesman who was first a radical Liberal, then a Liberal Unionist after opposing home rule for Ireland, and eventually served as a leading imperialist in coalition with the Conservatives. He split both major British parties in the course of his career.
After education at University College London he joined the family business and became an industrialist. In 1861 he married Harriet Kenrick but she died in childbirth leaving a son Austen and daughter Beatrice. In 1868 he married Harriet's cousin Florence Kenrick and had four children, Neville, Ida, Hilda and Ethel.
Harriet Kenrick was born on 5 November 1835 in West Bromwich to Archibald Kenrick and Anne Paget. Cousin to her husband's second wife. Harriet Kenrick married Joseph Chamberlain in 1861 in Birmingham, Warwickshire (now West Midlands), England, United Kingdom.
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Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain KG (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 ...
Find a Grave Memorial ID: 68800870. Source citation. Aged 27 years. She was the daughter of Archibald Kenrick (1798-10 Mar 1878) and Anne Paget (16 March 1798-Jul 1864). Schoolteacher and wife of Joseph Chamberlain. She became ill two days after giving birth and died three days later. The baby, Joseph Austen survived and later went on to become ...
Beatrice Mary Chamberlain was born in Birmingham in 1862. She was the eldest child of Joseph Chamberlain and Harriet Kenrick and was the elder sister of Austen Chamberlain. She was also the eldest half-sister of Neville, Ida, Hilda, and Ethel Chamberlain, Joseph's children by his second marriage to Florence Kenrick, Harriet's first cousin.
