1 Photograph of Joseph Chamberlain, 1860s

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1 Photograph of Joseph Chamberlain, 1860s
1 Photograph of Joseph Chamberlain, 1860s

Joseph Chamberlain was born in London on 8 July 1836 in Camberwell, Surrey. He was the eldest of nine children of Joseph Chamberlain (1796-1874), cordwainer and metal manufacturer, and his wife, Caroline (1808-1875), daughter of Henry Harben, brewer and provisions merchant.
He went to school in Camberwell and also studied at a school run by a Church of England clergyman in Islington, although he and his family were practising Unitarians. He then attended University College School in London where he won prizes in Latin and French as well as mathematics and science.
He became an apprentice in his father’s business, where he worked mostly in accounting. He visited Belgium and France as translator for his uncle, another cordwainer, during his apprenticeship.
He was sent to Birmingham in 1854 to look after his father’s investment of £10,000 in the wood screw manufacturing business of his brother-in-law, John Sutton Nettlefold, made to enable Nettlefold to purchase the British rights to an American patent for automated screw-making machinery and enough machines to exploit the potential of the patent.

Reference: C9/27

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