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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Austen Chamberlain has received more than 632,773 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Austen Chamberlain is the 2,149th most popular politician (down from 2,074th in 2019), the 460th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 479th in 2019) and the 79th 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

Among politicians, Austen Chamberlain ranks 2,149 out of 19,576Before him are Abd al-Rahman II, Néstor Kirchner, Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria, Dom Pérignon, Peter II of Portugal, and Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe. After him are Antiochus II Theos, Albert I, Prince of Monaco, Kara Ahmed Pasha, Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Eugène Edine Pottier, and Louise of Orléans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Austen Chamberlain ranks 20Before him are Carlos I of Portugal, George Herbert Mead, Vladimir Vernadsky, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Joaquín Sorolla, and Wilhelm Marx. After him are Alexandre Yersin, Gaston Doumergue, Werner Sombart, Max Wolf, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, and Franz Stuck. Among people deceased in 1937, Austen Chamberlain ranks 19Before him are Mikhail Tukhachevsky, George Gershwin, Gustaf Dalén, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Gerda Taro, and J. M. Barrie. After him are J. Bruce Ismay, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Gaston Doumergue, Jean Harlow, Rudolf Otto, and Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Austen Chamberlain ranks 460 out of 8,785Before him are John Knox (1514), Thomas Gainsborough (1727), John Bonham (1948), John Edward Gray (1800), Thomas Harriot (1560), and William Adams (1564). After him are Daphne du Maurier (1907), John Wallis (1616), Edward the Martyr (962), Joshua Reynolds (1723), Julia Gillard (1961), and Helena Bonham Carter (1966).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Austen Chamberlain ranks 79Before him are Tristan (535), John Buchan (1875), Marie of Romania (1875), William Pitt the Younger (1759), Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (1411), and Princess Muna al-Hussein (1941). After him are Edward the Martyr (962), Julia Gillard (1961), Eadred (923), Æthelflæd (869), Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545), and James Callaghan (1912).