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QUITE RADICAL Sup citizen Joseph Chamberlain 8 July 1836 2 July 1914 was a British politician and statesman Unlike most major politicians of the time he was a selfmade businessman who had not attended university ID: 234430

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Joseph Chamberlain

“QUITE RADICAL!”

Sup, citizen?Slide2

Joseph Chamberlain (8 July 1836 – 2 July 1914) was a British politician and statesman. Unlike most major politicians of the time, he was a self-made businessman who had not attended university.

The IntroductionSlide3

Chamberlain was born in

Camberwell

in London to a successful shoemaker and manufacturer, also named Joseph (1796–1874), and his wife Caroline

Harben

. He was educated at Euston between 1850 and 1852, excelling academically and gaining prizes in French and mathematics.

The elder Chamberlain was not able to provide advanced education for all his children, and at the age of 16 Joseph was apprenticed to the Worshipful Company of

Cordwainers

and worked for the family business making quality leather shoes. At 18 he joined his uncle's

screwmaking

business of Birmingham. The company became known as

Nettlefold

and Chamberlain when Chamberlain became a partner with Joseph Nettlefold.

Early lifeSlide4

In November 1873, the Liberal Party swept the municipal elections and Chamberlain was elected as the mayor of Birmingham. As mayor, Chamberlain promoted many civic improvements, leaving the town (in words to

Collings

) ”parked, paved,

assized

, marketed, gas & watered and improved”. Papers dared to call him a radical and even a socialist. Joseph was caricatured almost everywhere. The unusual fact is that his caricatures made monocles fashionable.

Mayor of

BirminhamSlide5

Chamberlain, caricatured as The Mad Hatter and HamletSlide6

Member of Parliament

The Sheffield Reform Association, an offshoot of the Liberal Party in the city, invited Chamberlain to stand for election as an MP soon after the beginning of his tenure as Mayor of Birmingham. Chamberlain's first Parliamentary campaign (the 1874 general election) was a fierce one; opponents accused him of republicanism and atheism, and even threw dead cats at him on the speaking platform. Chamberlain came in third place, a poor result for a leading urban Radical.Slide7

When elected, Chamberlain resigned as mayor of Birmingham, and was introduced to the House of Commons by John Bright and Joseph Cowen, an M.P. for Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Almost immediately, Chamberlain began to

organise

the Radical MPs,

intenting

to displace Whig dominance of the Liberal Party.

Early difficulties in creating a coherent Radical group convinced Chamberlain of the need to establish a more effective

organisation

for the Liberal Party as a whole, especially in the localities. Chamberlain hoped to harness the public agitation against Turkey's Bulgarian atrocities for a Radical agenda.Slide8

Chamberlain believed that there, in the Colonial Office, was "work to be done" as Colonial Secretary, to expand the British Empire and reorder imperial trade and resources, and foster closer relations between Britain and the settler colonies, with the objective of reforming the empire as a federation of Anglo-Saxon nations, and he could be assured of support from Conservative backbenchers. Chamberlain had always been a keen imperialist and an advocate of a stronger empire; in 1887 in Toronto, he had declared that "I should think our patriotism was warped and stunted indeed if it did not embrace the Greater Britain beyond the seas".

Colonial Secretary