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Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, KG

Order of the Garter

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(16 October 1863 – 17 March 1937) was a British statesman

Statesman

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, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Peace Prize

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and half-brother of Neville Chamberlain

Neville Chamberlain

Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the...

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Austen Chamberlain was born in Birmingham

Birmingham

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, the second child and eldest son of Joseph Chamberlain

Joseph Chamberlain

Joseph Chamberlain was an influential British politician and statesman. Unlike most major politicians of the time, he was a self-made businessman and had not attended Oxford or Cambridge University....

, then a rising industrialist and political radical

Radicalism (historical)

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, later Mayor

Mayor

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of Birmingham and a dominant figure in Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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and Unionist

Conservative Party (UK)

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politics at the end of the 19th century. His mother, the former Harriet Kenrick, died in childbirth.