Richard Chamberlain (7 July 1840 – 2 April 1899) was a Liberal and later Liberal Unionist politician in the United Kingdom. [1]
The younger brother of Joseph Chamberlain, [2] he was born in Camberwell to Joseph Chamberlain (1796–1874) and Caroline Harben (1806–1875).
Chamberlain was Mayor of Birmingham from 1879 to 1880, [2] and later Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington West from 1885 to 1892. [1]
He was buried at Key Hill Cemetery, Hockley, Birmingham. [3]
Chamberlain married firstly, in 1872, Mary Dawes, daughter of the ironmaster Henry William Dawes of Kenilworth, and secondly, in 1887, Rahmen Theodora Swinburne, daughter of Sir John Swinburne, 7th Baronet. [4]
His relative Robert Francis Martineau was also a City of Birmingham alderman and a member of the Birmingham University council. [5]