Chairman and a substantial shareholder of Kynoch Ltd of Birmingham, manufacturers of metal goods, explosives and small arms ammunition.
Arthur Chamberlain
Born April 11, 1842, London England.
Died October 19, 1913 at the age of 71 in Devon, England.
Son of Joseph Chamberlain and Caroline Harben.
Husband to Louisa Kenrick Chamberlain (1848-1892)
Children:
1. Margaret Chamberlain Nettlefold 1871-1949 married to John Sutton Nettlefold
2. Helen Chamberlain Beesly 1872-1922 married to Gerald Beesly
3. Katherine Chamberlain Harman 1873-1960 married to Nathaniel Bishop Harman
4. Bertha Chamberlain 1874-1942 married to Henry Donald Hope
5. Mary Chamberlain 1876-1860
6. Ruth Chamberlain 1877-1965
7. Charlotte Chamberlain 1878-1956
8. Arthur Chamberlain 1880-1976 married to Helen Jackson
9. Captain John Chamberlain KIA WWI 1882-1917
Moor Green Hall, stood on Moor Green Lane opposite Yew Tree Road. It was the home of Arthur Chamberlain, brother of Joseph Chamberlain. The house was used by the Red Cross during the First World War as a military hospital. The north end of Elizabeth Road now runs on the site of the hall.
The New York Times reported an incident at the hall of the previous day in its edition of 13 February 1914:
Birmingham, 12th. A tube charged with high explosives was found to-day on a window sill of Moor Green Hall, Highbury, near here, the residence of Arthur Chamberlain, brother of the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain.
A fuse attached to the bomb was connected with a photographer's lamp in which a candle had been burning. The flame, however, was extinguished before it reached the fuse. A postcard addressed to Reginald McKenna, the Home secretary, was found nearby. It bore the words, "Militancy is not dead., but if you are not already you soon will be." A quantity of suffrage literature was left nearby.
In 1914 Joseph had been long out of politics through ill health, while Arthur was chairman of Kynoch's making weapons. Kynoch, established a munitions factory on the north side of Arklow, Ireland. This factory employed several thousand workers during World War I, but closed shortly after it, all production being moved to South Africa
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Chamberlain, Arthur (1842–1913), industrialist
1842 born on 11 April in Camberwell, Surrey, the third of six sons of Joseph Chamberlain (1796–1874), a wholesale shoe manufacturer, and Caroline, née Harben (1808–1875), daughter of a wealthy provision merchant. His eldest brother was Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914).
c.1858 On leaving school at the age of sixteen, Arthur followed Joseph into the wood-screw business of Nettlefold and Chamberlain in Birmingham but he was not welcomed by Nettlefold
1863, his father put him in charge of another of his interests in Birmingham, Smith and Chamberlain, brassfounders, which Arthur took into electric fittings.
1870 Arthur married Louisa Kenrick. They had two sons, Arthur (1880–1941) and John (1881–1917), who was killed in Flanders, and seven daughters, before Louisa died in 1892.
1874 The family sold their interest in the business.
1883 Arthur and George Hookham developed Chamberlain and Hookham, next door to Smith and Chamberlain in New Bartholomew Street.
1886 Chamberlain and Hookham won the contract to install electric light in Birmingham Art Gallery but subsequently concentrated on the manufacture of meters.
1888 He was called in by shareholders of Kynochs to rescue the business
1889 became chairman of Kynochs. He restructured the business and doubled output within 8 years as well as adding new product lines, moving into the munitions business and taking over several other firms.
1890 He was one of the first to reduce the working week from 60 to 48 hours; he gave clerks and foremen 14 days paid holiday and a pension after 10 years' service.
By 1891 Chamberlain had entered the tube-making business through Endurance Seamless Tube and Vial Co.
Mid-1890s he took over another ailing Birmingham firm, Weldless Tube Co, and merged it with others, but was hit by the collapse of the cycle boom.
1896 Endurance became Endurance Tube and Engineering Co and opened a factory in King's Norton with, as co-directors, son-in-law John Sutton Nettlefold and George Hookham, while his son John worked for Chamberlain and Hookham.
1898 Weldless Tubes and others were reconstructed into Tubes Ltd; his son and grandson, both Arthurs, were involved in the management for many years.
Also had interests in Hoskins and Son, makers of ships' berths, and Elliotts Metal Co, makers of ships' sheathing.
1913 Died in Devon
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Arthur Chamberlain
Born April 11, 1842, London England.
Died October 19, 1913 at the age of 71 in Devon, England.
Son of Joseph Chamberlain and Caroline Harben.
Husband to Louisa Kenrick Chamberlain (1848-1892)
Children:
1. Margaret Chamberlain Nettlefold 1871-1949 married to John Sutton Nettlefold
2. Helen Chamberlain Beesly 1872-1922 married to Gerald Beesly
3. Katherine Chamberlain Harman 1873-1960 married to Nathaniel Bishop Harman
4. Bertha Chamberlain 1874-1942 married to Henry Donald Hope
5. Mary Chamberlain 1876-1860
6. Ruth Chamberlain 1877-1965
7. Charlotte Chamberlain 1878-1956
8. Arthur Chamberlain 1880-1976 married to Helen Jackson
9. Captain John Chamberlain KIA WWI 1882-1917
Moor Green Hall, stood on Moor Green Lane opposite Yew Tree Road. It was the home of Arthur Chamberlain, brother of Joseph Chamberlain. The house was used by the Red Cross during the First World War as a military hospital. The north end of Elizabeth Road now runs on the site of the hall.
The New York Times reported an incident at the hall of the previous day in its edition of 13 February 1914:
Birmingham, 12th. A tube charged with high explosives was found to-day on a window sill of Moor Green Hall, Highbury, near here, the residence of Arthur Chamberlain, brother of the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain.
A fuse attached to the bomb was connected with a photographer's lamp in which a candle had been burning. The flame, however, was extinguished before it reached the fuse. A postcard addressed to Reginald McKenna, the Home secretary, was found nearby. It bore the words, "Militancy is not dead., but if you are not already you soon will be." A quantity of suffrage literature was left nearby.
In 1914 Joseph had been long out of politics through ill health, while Arthur was chairman of Kynoch's making weapons. Kynoch, established a munitions factory on the north side of Arklow, Ireland. This factory employed several thousand workers during World War I, but closed shortly after it, all production being moved to South Africa
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Chamberlain, Arthur (1842–1913), industrialist
1842 born on 11 April in Camberwell, Surrey, the third of six sons of Joseph Chamberlain (1796–1874), a wholesale shoe manufacturer, and Caroline, née Harben (1808–1875), daughter of a wealthy provision merchant. His eldest brother was Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914).
c.1858 On leaving school at the age of sixteen, Arthur followed Joseph into the wood-screw business of Nettlefold and Chamberlain in Birmingham but he was not welcomed by Nettlefold
1863, his father put him in charge of another of his interests in Birmingham, Smith and Chamberlain, brassfounders, which Arthur took into electric fittings.
1870 Arthur married Louisa Kenrick. They had two sons, Arthur (1880–1941) and John (1881–1917), who was killed in Flanders, and seven daughters, before Louisa died in 1892.
1874 The family sold their interest in the business.
1883 Arthur and George Hookham developed Chamberlain and Hookham, next door to Smith and Chamberlain in New Bartholomew Street.
1886 Chamberlain and Hookham won the contract to install electric light in Birmingham Art Gallery but subsequently concentrated on the manufacture of meters.
1888 He was called in by shareholders of Kynochs to rescue the business
1889 became chairman of Kynochs. He restructured the business and doubled output within 8 years as well as adding new product lines, moving into the munitions business and taking over several other firms.
1890 He was one of the first to reduce the working week from 60 to 48 hours; he gave clerks and foremen 14 days paid holiday and a pension after 10 years' service.
By 1891 Chamberlain had entered the tube-making business through Endurance Seamless Tube and Vial Co.
Mid-1890s he took over another ailing Birmingham firm, Weldless Tube Co, and merged it with others, but was hit by the collapse of the cycle boom.
1896 Endurance became Endurance Tube and Engineering Co and opened a factory in King's Norton with, as co-directors, son-in-law John Sutton Nettlefold and George Hookham, while his son John worked for Chamberlain and Hookham.
1898 Weldless Tubes and others were reconstructed into Tubes Ltd; his son and grandson, both Arthurs, were involved in the management for many years.
Also had interests in Hoskins and Son, makers of ships' berths, and Elliotts Metal Co, makers of ships' sheathing.
1913 Died in Devon
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Chairman and a substantial shareholder of Kynoch Ltd of Birmingham, manufacturers of metal goods, explosives and small arms ammunition.
Arthur Chamberlain
Born April 11, 1842, London England.
Died October 19, 1913 at the age of 71 in Devon, England.
Son of Joseph Chamberlain and Caroline Harben.
Husband to Louisa Kenrick Chamberlain (1848-1892)
Children:
1. Margaret Chamberlain Nettlefold 1871-1949 married to John Sutton Nettlefold
2. Helen Chamberlain Beesly 1872-1922 married to Gerald Beesly
3. Katherine Chamberlain Harman 1873-1960 married to Nathaniel Bishop Harman
4. Bertha Chamberlain 1874-1942 married to Henry Donald Hope
5. Mary Chamberlain 1876-1860
6. Ruth Chamberlain 1877-1965
7. Charlotte Chamberlain 1878-1956
8. Arthur Chamberlain 1880-1976 married to Helen Jackson
9. Captain John Chamberlain KIA WWI 1882-1917
Moor Green Hall, stood on Moor Green Lane opposite Yew Tree Road. It was the home of Arthur Chamberlain, brother of Joseph Chamberlain. The house was used by the Red Cross during the First World War as a military hospital. The north end of Elizabeth Road now runs on the site of the hall.
The New York Times reported an incident at the hall of the previous day in its edition of 13 February 1914:
Birmingham, 12th. A tube charged with high explosives was found to-day on a window sill of Moor Green Hall, Highbury, near here, the residence of Arthur Chamberlain, brother of the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain.
A fuse attached to the bomb was connected with a photographer's lamp in which a candle had been burning. The flame, however, was extinguished before it reached the fuse. A postcard addressed to Reginald McKenna, the Home secretary, was found nearby. It bore the words, "Militancy is not dead., but if you are not already you soon will be." A quantity of suffrage literature was left nearby.
In 1914 Joseph had been long out of politics through ill health, while Arthur was chairman of Kynoch's making weapons. Kynoch, established a munitions factory on the north side of Arklow, Ireland. This factory employed several thousand workers during World War I, but closed shortly after it, all production being moved to South Africa
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Chamberlain, Arthur (1842–1913), industrialist
1842 born on 11 April in Camberwell, Surrey, the third of six sons of Joseph Chamberlain (1796–1874), a wholesale shoe manufacturer, and Caroline, née Harben (1808–1875), daughter of a wealthy provision merchant. His eldest brother was Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914).
c.1858 On leaving school at the age of sixteen, Arthur followed Joseph into the wood-screw business of Nettlefold and Chamberlain in Birmingham but he was not welcomed by Nettlefold
1863, his father put him in charge of another of his interests in Birmingham, Smith and Chamberlain, brassfounders, which Arthur took into electric fittings.
1870 Arthur married Louisa Kenrick. They had two sons, Arthur (1880–1941) and John (1881–1917), who was killed in Flanders, and seven daughters, before Louisa died in 1892.
1874 The family sold their interest in the business.
1883 Arthur and George Hookham developed Chamberlain and Hookham, next door to Smith and Chamberlain in New Bartholomew Street.
1886 Chamberlain and Hookham won the contract to install electric light in Birmingham Art Gallery but subsequently concentrated on the manufacture of meters.
1888 He was called in by shareholders of Kynochs to rescue the business
1889 became chairman of Kynochs. He restructured the business and doubled output within 8 years as well as adding new product lines, moving into the munitions business and taking over several other firms.
1890 He was one of the first to reduce the working week from 60 to 48 hours; he gave clerks and foremen 14 days paid holiday and a pension after 10 years' service.
By 1891 Chamberlain had entered the tube-making business through Endurance Seamless Tube and Vial Co.
Mid-1890s he took over another ailing Birmingham firm, Weldless Tube Co, and merged it with others, but was hit by the collapse of the cycle boom.
1896 Endurance became Endurance Tube and Engineering Co and opened a factory in King's Norton with, as co-directors, son-in-law John Sutton Nettlefold and George Hookham, while his son John worked for Chamberlain and Hookham.
1898 Weldless Tubes and others were reconstructed into Tubes Ltd; his son and grandson, both Arthurs, were involved in the management for many years.
Also had interests in Hoskins and Son, makers of ships' berths, and Elliotts Metal Co, makers of ships' sheathing.
1913 Died in Devon
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Arthur Chamberlain
Born April 11, 1842, London England.
Died October 19, 1913 at the age of 71 in Devon, England.
Son of Joseph Chamberlain and Caroline Harben.
Husband to Louisa Kenrick Chamberlain (1848-1892)
Children:
1. Margaret Chamberlain Nettlefold 1871-1949 married to John Sutton Nettlefold
2. Helen Chamberlain Beesly 1872-1922 married to Gerald Beesly
3. Katherine Chamberlain Harman 1873-1960 married to Nathaniel Bishop Harman
4. Bertha Chamberlain 1874-1942 married to Henry Donald Hope
5. Mary Chamberlain 1876-1860
6. Ruth Chamberlain 1877-1965
7. Charlotte Chamberlain 1878-1956
8. Arthur Chamberlain 1880-1976 married to Helen Jackson
9. Captain John Chamberlain KIA WWI 1882-1917
Moor Green Hall, stood on Moor Green Lane opposite Yew Tree Road. It was the home of Arthur Chamberlain, brother of Joseph Chamberlain. The house was used by the Red Cross during the First World War as a military hospital. The north end of Elizabeth Road now runs on the site of the hall.
The New York Times reported an incident at the hall of the previous day in its edition of 13 February 1914:
Birmingham, 12th. A tube charged with high explosives was found to-day on a window sill of Moor Green Hall, Highbury, near here, the residence of Arthur Chamberlain, brother of the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain.
A fuse attached to the bomb was connected with a photographer's lamp in which a candle had been burning. The flame, however, was extinguished before it reached the fuse. A postcard addressed to Reginald McKenna, the Home secretary, was found nearby. It bore the words, "Militancy is not dead., but if you are not already you soon will be." A quantity of suffrage literature was left nearby.
In 1914 Joseph had been long out of politics through ill health, while Arthur was chairman of Kynoch's making weapons. Kynoch, established a munitions factory on the north side of Arklow, Ireland. This factory employed several thousand workers during World War I, but closed shortly after it, all production being moved to South Africa
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Chamberlain, Arthur (1842–1913), industrialist
1842 born on 11 April in Camberwell, Surrey, the third of six sons of Joseph Chamberlain (1796–1874), a wholesale shoe manufacturer, and Caroline, née Harben (1808–1875), daughter of a wealthy provision merchant. His eldest brother was Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914).
c.1858 On leaving school at the age of sixteen, Arthur followed Joseph into the wood-screw business of Nettlefold and Chamberlain in Birmingham but he was not welcomed by Nettlefold
1863, his father put him in charge of another of his interests in Birmingham, Smith and Chamberlain, brassfounders, which Arthur took into electric fittings.
1870 Arthur married Louisa Kenrick. They had two sons, Arthur (1880–1941) and John (1881–1917), who was killed in Flanders, and seven daughters, before Louisa died in 1892.
1874 The family sold their interest in the business.
1883 Arthur and George Hookham developed Chamberlain and Hookham, next door to Smith and Chamberlain in New Bartholomew Street.
1886 Chamberlain and Hookham won the contract to install electric light in Birmingham Art Gallery but subsequently concentrated on the manufacture of meters.
1888 He was called in by shareholders of Kynochs to rescue the business
1889 became chairman of Kynochs. He restructured the business and doubled output within 8 years as well as adding new product lines, moving into the munitions business and taking over several other firms.
1890 He was one of the first to reduce the working week from 60 to 48 hours; he gave clerks and foremen 14 days paid holiday and a pension after 10 years' service.
By 1891 Chamberlain had entered the tube-making business through Endurance Seamless Tube and Vial Co.
Mid-1890s he took over another ailing Birmingham firm, Weldless Tube Co, and merged it with others, but was hit by the collapse of the cycle boom.
1896 Endurance became Endurance Tube and Engineering Co and opened a factory in King's Norton with, as co-directors, son-in-law John Sutton Nettlefold and George Hookham, while his son John worked for Chamberlain and Hookham.
1898 Weldless Tubes and others were reconstructed into Tubes Ltd; his son and grandson, both Arthurs, were involved in the management for many years.
Also had interests in Hoskins and Son, makers of ships' berths, and Elliotts Metal Co, makers of ships' sheathing.
1913 Died in Devon
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THOU HAST FORGOTTEN ME;
AND I, PERCHANCE MAY SOOTHE THIS HEART.
IN THINKING TOO OF THEE."
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