The Stanleys had been communicating with the exiled Henry Tudor for some time and Tudor's strategy of landing in Wales and heading east into central England depended on the acquiescence of Sir William Stanley, as Chamberlain of Chester and north Wales, and by extension on that of Lord Stanley himself.

Chamberlain devoted himself to business, while raising Beatrice and Austen with the Kenrick parents-in-law.

Chamberlain forcibly purchased the two companies on behalf of the borough for £ 1, 953, 050, even offering to purchase the companies himself if the ratepayers refused.

Chamberlain raised the funds for the programme, contributing £ 10, 000 himself.

The body was dominated by Birmingham politicians, with Chamberlain himself as President.

At Denbigh, on 20 October 1884, Chamberlain famously declared in a speech that Salisbury was " himself the spokesman of a class – a class to which he himself belongs, who toil not neither do they spin.

Meanwhile, to distinguish himself from the Whigs, Chamberlain founded the National Radical Union to rival the NLF.

Gladstone himself observed that " There is a difference between Hartington and Chamberlain, that the first behaves like and is a thorough gentleman.

Unable to associate himself decisively with either party, Chamberlain sought concerted action with a kindred spirit from the Conservative Party, Lord Randolph Churchill.

Fostering a cult of personality, Chamberlain began to refer to himself in the third person as ' the Colonial Secretary ', and he ensured that the Boer War featured as the campaign's single issue, arguing that a Liberal victory would result in defeat in South Africa.

On 18 March, Eckardstein asked Chamberlain to resume alliance negotiations, and although the Colonial Secretary reaffirmed his support, he was unwilling to commit himself, remembering von Bülow's rebuke in 1899.

Chamberlain himself spoke at Greenock, Newcastle, Liverpool and Leeds within a month of the outset.

Balfour maintained his programme of retaliatory tariffs and attempted to minimise the obvious differences between Chamberlain and himself.

Similarly, after the resignation of Neville Chamberlain in 1940 there were two likely successors, Churchill and Halifax, but the latter ruled himself out for the premiership on the grounds that his membership of the House of Lords disqualified him.

Chamberlain, a Medal of Honor recipient who later served as governor of Maine, adjutant-general of Maine, and president of Bowdoin, distinguished himself at Gettysburg, where he led the 20th Maine in its valiant defense of Little Round Top.

Chamberlain found it impossible to continue to lead a National Government or to form a government of national unity ( in Britain often called a " coalition government ", to distinguish it from Chamberlain's existing national government ) around himself.

In March 1939, Chamberlain foresaw a possible disarmament conference between himself, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini and Joseph Stalin ; his home secretary, Samuel Hoare, said, " These five men, working together in Europe and blessed in their efforts by the President of the United States of America, might make themselves eternal benefactors of the human race.

Facing a resurgent Liberal opposition and the threat of an internal party split, Balfour eventually took the Unionists into opposition in December 1905, and in the ensuing rout in the election of 1906, Austen Chamberlain found himself one of the few surviving Liberal Unionists in the House of Commons.

In 1682 he was dismissed from the court, apparently for putting himself forward as a suitor for the Princess Anne, but on the accession of King James II, he received a seat in the Privy Council, and was made Lord Chamberlain.

Chamberlain himself was not trained in military science, but felt a strong desire to serve his country.

Sent to defend the southern slope of Little Round Top by Col. Strong Vincent, Chamberlain found himself and the 20th Maine at the far left end of the entire Union line.

Despite the injury, Chamberlain withdrew his sword and stuck it into the ground in order to keep himself upright to dissuade the growing resolve for retreat.

He is Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth I. Affectionately known to the Queen as " Melchy ", the earnest Lord Melchett has set himself up as her closest personal advisor and is always close to her.

* 1980 – Azaria Chamberlain disappears, probably taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicized trial in Australian history.

The party was saved after Salisbury's retirement in 1902 when his successor, Arthur Balfour, pushed a series of unpopular initiatives such as a new education bill and Joseph Chamberlain called for a new system of protectionist tariffs.

The order to fire live rounds was given, and one young man was shot and killed when he ran down Chamberlain Street away from the advancing troops.

Although Chamberlain survived this, the reputation of his administration was so badly damaged that it was clear that a coalition government was necessary.

Historian Mark Stoyle suggests that she was probably taught Cornish by William Killigrew, Groom of the Privy Chamber and later Chamberlain of the Exchequer.

Alberic, or Aubrey de Vere, sided with William the Conqueror, and after 1066 was rewarded with many estates, as well as being made hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, one of the six Great Officers of State.

Twelve-year-old Edward was now the 17th Earl of Oxford and Lord Great Chamberlain of England, and heir to an estate whose annual income, though assessed at approximately £ 2, 500, may have run as high as £ 3, 500.

He was entitled to yearly revenues from his estates and the office of Lord Great Chamberlain of approximately £ 2, 250, but he was not entitled to the income from his mother's jointure until after her death, nor to the income from certain estates set aside to pay his father's debts until 1583.

Wimborne had also reluctantly resigned, but was re-appointed, and Chamberlain resigned soon after.

In the United Kingdom, at the behest of Neville Chamberlain, ( more famous for his ' peace in our time ' speech ) the entire British aviation industry was retooled, allowing it to change quickly from fabric covered metal framed biplanes to cantilever stressed skin monoplanes in time for the war with Germany.

William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham may have become aware of the offensive representation after a public performance ; he may also have learned of it while it was being prepared for a court performance ( Cobham was at that time Lord Chamberlain ).

Chamberlain was forced to acknowledge that his policy of appeasement towards Hitler had failed.

Major influences were Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler and, most importantly, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, the British-born German writer who was one of the founders of " scientific " anti-Semitism, and whose book The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century ( 1899 ) was one of the standard works of the extreme right in Germany.

Like Hitler, Ribbentrop was determined that in the next crisis, Germany would not have its professed demands met in another Munich-type summit, and that the next crisis to be caused by Germany would result in the war that Chamberlain had " cheated " the Germans out of at Munich.

Such was the state of public fury that it appeared possible for several days afterwards that the Chamberlain government might fall due to a backbencher rebellion.

In this, Ribbentrop was particularly supported by the German Ambassador in London, Herbert von Dirksen, who reported that Chamberlain knew " the social structure of Britain, even the conception of the British Empire, would not survive the chaos of even a victorious war ", and so would back down over Poland.

On 27 August 1939, Chamberlain sent the following letter to Hitler, which was intended to counteract reports Chamberlain had heard from intelligence sources in Berlin that Ribbentrop had convinced Hitler that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact would ensure that Britain would abandon Poland.

Kenilworth Castle was founded in the early 1120s by Geoffrey de Clinton, Lord Chamberlain to Henry I.