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Chamberlain, Joseph (1836–1914) Quick reference
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..., Joseph ( 1836–1914 ) British political leader , father of Neville Chamberlain . He entered Parliament as a Liberal In 1876 . In 1880 , he became president of the board of trade. In 1886 he resigned over Gladstone 's Home Rule Bill, and was leader of the Liberal Unionists from 1889 . In 1895 , he returned to government as colonial secretary, where his aggressive, imperialist stance helped provoke the South African War ( 1899 ). He resigned again In 1903 in order to argue freely for tariff...
Chamberlain, Joseph (8 July 1836) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (6 ed.)
...Chamberlain, Joseph (b. London , 8 July 1836 ; d. London , 2 July 1914 ) UK Secretary of State for Colonies 1895–1903 Joseph Chamberlain was famous more for the causes for which he campaigned than for offices which he held. He is also notable for helping to split the two major political parties. Chamberlain was born into a family of boot and shoe manufacturers and entered the family firm after leaving school at 16. He soon moved to work for an uncle who was a screw manufacturer in Birmingham. He was so successful in the enterprise that he was...
Chamberlain, Joseph (8 July 1836) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Political Biography (2 ed.)
..., Joseph (b. London , 8 July 1836 ; d. London , 2 July 1914 ) British ; Secretary of State for Colonies 1895–1903 Joseph Chamberlain was famous more for the causes for which he campaigned than for offices which he held. He is also notable for helping to split the two major political parties. Chamberlain was born into a family of boot and shoe manufacturers and entered the family firm after leaving school at 16. He soon moved to work for an uncle who was a screw manufacturer in Birmingham. He was so successful in the enterprise that he was...
Chamberlain, Joseph Quick reference
A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
..., Joseph ( 1836–1914 ). Radical and imperialist . Chamberlain made his fortune as a screw manufacturer, which enabled him to retire at the age of 38. He dedicated the rest of his life to politics, first on the Birmingham city council, where he rose to be mayor in 1873–5 , and then as a Birmingham MP. He was an advanced social reformer, clearing slums, building houses for the poor, setting up free public libraries and art galleries, and taking the gas, water, and sewage systems of Birmingham into municipal ownership. He also had sharp views on the...
Chamberlain, Joseph (1836–1914) Reference library
Bernard Porter
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
..., Joseph ( 1836–1914 ) . Radical and imperialist. Like many of the most interesting politicians, Chamberlain defies categorization. He made his fortune as a screw manufacturer, which enabled him to retire at the age of 38. He dedicated the rest of his life to politics, first on the Birmingham city council, where he rose to be mayor in 1873–5 , and then as a Birmingham MP. He was an advanced social reformer, clearing slums, building houses for the poor, setting up free public libraries and art galleries, and taking the gas, water, and sewage...
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) Quick reference
Oxford Essential Quotations (6 ed.)
...0Joseph Joseph Chamberlain 1836 – 1914 British Liberal politician In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight. letter from A. J. Balfour to 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, 24 March 1886; A. J. Balfour Chapters of Autobiography (1930) ch. 16; see Wilson In politics , there is no use beyond the next fortnight The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come. speech at Birmingham, 12 May...
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...0Joseph Joseph Chamberlain 1836 – 1914 British Liberal politician , father of Neville chamberlain In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight. letter from A. J. Balfour to 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, 24 March 1886; A. J. Balfour Chapters of Autobiography (1930) ch. 16; see wilson In politics , there is no use no use looking beyond beyond the next fortnight Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop. speech at the Guildhall, 19...
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (4 ed.)
...0Joseph Joseph Chamberlain 1836 – 1914 British Liberal politician , father of Neville chamberlain . On Chamberlain: see churchill ; see also slogans In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight. A. J. Balfour letter to Lord Salisbury, 24 March 1886; see wilson In politics , there is no use beyond the next fortnight Any universal scheme for giving pensions to everybody is…beyond the resources of the state. It would cost such an enormous sum, and would involve such an entire disintegration of our whole financial system,...
Chamberlain, Joseph Austen (16 Oct. 1863) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Political Biography (2 ed.)
..., Joseph Austen (b. Birmingham , 16 Oct. 1863 ; d. London , 16 Mar. 1937 ) British ; Chancellor of the Exchequer 1903–5 , 1919–21 , leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons 1921–2 , Foreign Secretary 1924–9 ; KG 1925 The son of Joseph Chamberlain , Austen was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge. He joined his father in parliament in 1892 when he was returned unopposed as the Liberal Unionist MP for East Worcestershire. He soon began his rise up the ministerial ladder, serving as Civil Lord of the...
Chamberlain, Sir (Joseph) Austen (16 Oct. 1863) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (6 ed.)
...Chamberlain, Sir (Joseph) Austen (b. Birmingham , 16 Oct. 1863 ; d. London , 16 Mar. 1937 ) UK Chancellor of the Exchequer 1903–5 , 1919–21 , Foreign Secretary 1924–9 The son of Joseph Chamberlain , Austen was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge. He joined his father in parliament in 1892 when he was returned unopposed as the Liberal Unionist MP for East Worcestershire. He soon began his rise up the ministerial ladder, serving as Civil Lord of the Admiralty ( 1895–1900 ) and Financial Secretary to the Treasury ( 1900–2 ) before...
Joseph Chamberlain
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Daven Christopher Chamberlain
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...Daven Christopher Chamberlain 1 Introduction 2 Paper manufacture 3 Sheet structure 4 Watermarks 5 Surface characteristics 6 Other characteristics 7 Composition 8 Provenance 1 Introduction Paper is a sheet material consisting of overlapping vegetable fibres that bond together to form a compact mat. Its origin can be traced to China, where a court official named Cai Lun is said to have invented it c. ad 105 . Paper remained exclusive to the Middle East and East Asia until around 1151 , when there is evidence of its being made in Spain during...
Romeo and Juliet Reference library
Michael Dobson, Anthony Davies, and Will Sharpe
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...a reported text assembled by actors who had played Romeo and Paris. The title page proclaims that Romeo and Juliet has ‘been often (with great applause) played publicly, by the Right Honourable Lord Hunsdon his servants’: since Shakespeare’s company was renamed the Lord Chamberlain’s Men as of 17 March 1597 , this edition must have gone to press before then. Furthermore, the work of producing it was interrupted by the seizure of its original printer’s presses, an event which took place between 9 February and 27 March 1597 , by which time the first four...
Theatre Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...theatrical entertainment to Westminster and the royal residences; it also required the texts of plays to be submitted to the Office of the Lord Chamberlain for censorship prior to performance. However, the terms of the Act were complicated in 1752 when, in an attempt to curb ‘disorderly houses’ such as Sadler's Wells, a further measure of regulation was introduced. This empowered the Lord Chamberlain to license places of public entertainment other than theatres within Westminster and the city of London. A similar authority was granted to magistrates...
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Reference library
Michael Dobson and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...Prince of Denmark The one Shakespearian tragedy from which almost every speaker of English can quote at least one or two phrases, Hamlet is also one of the most difficult to date. The Revenge of Hamlet Prince [of] Denmark , ‘lately acted by the Lord Chamberlain his servants’, was entered in the Stationers’ Register in July 1602 , and printed in quarto in 1603 as The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark : this edition attributes the play to Shakespeare but is drastically shorter than either a subsequent quarto ( 1604/5 , 1611 , 1622 , ...
The Antiquarian Tradition Quick reference
David Hey
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
... in 1598 ; three further editions were issued by 1640 . Stow wrote that he had ‘attempted the discovery of London’. John Hooker 's Description of the Citie of Excester , finished in the same year, was not published in full until the 20th century. Hooker was Exeter's first chamberlain and was an exact contemporary of Stow, for both were born in 1525 . The third volume was Thomas Nash's Nashes Lenten Stuffe, containing the description and first procreation and increase of the towne of Greate Yarmouth in Norfolk ( 1599 ). After this auspicious start, no...
Towns Quick reference
David M. Palliser
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...of municipal sanitary inspectors in 1866 . In 1875 another Public Health Act offered wide powers to all municipalities, and a Housing Act allowed them to clear and rebuild slums. A new spirit of municipal enterprise—seen strikingly, for instance, in Birmingham under Joseph Chamberlain ( 1836–1914 )—helped to improve urban conditions. Nevertheless, progress was for long very patchy. Urban mortality was steadily reduced, but acute poverty long remained. The Revd Andrew Mearns , with The Bitter Cry of Outcast London ( 1883 ), helped to provoke...
Bitter Lives: Israel in and out of Egypt Reference library
Carol A. Redmount
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...the death of Joseph through the Israelite departure, the wilderness wanderings, and the Sinai revelations, up to but not including the conquest of Canaan. The account, largely in narrative form, spreads over four books of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible. As the book of Exodus begins, Joseph and all of his generation have died, and Joseph's descendants “multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them” ( Exod. 1.7 ). There is now a new pharaoh ruling Egypt, “who did not know Joseph” ( Exod. 1.8 )....
Visions of Kingdoms: From Pompey to the First Jewish Revolt Reference library
Amy-Jill Levine
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...the world should be registered. This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria” ( Luke 2.1–2 ). By this device, Luke explains why Joseph, together with his very pregnant wife, Mary, made the journey from Galilee to Bethlehem; thereby, Jesus is born in Bethlehem and the prophecy from Micah 5.2 can be fulfilled. (The Gospel of Matthew depicts Mary and Joseph as already living in Bethlehem; they relocate to Nazareth after the death of Herod the Great for fear of persecution by Herod Archelaus.) The dates provided...
