Anne Chamberlain
(1883-1967)
BIRTH
1883
PLACE
England
NAME
Anne de Vere Cole
DEATH
February 12, 1967
PLACE
London, England
FAMILY
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Annie
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Anne Chamberlain was the wife of the British prime minister Neville Chamberlain. Her father died in India when she was a child. Anne and Chamberlain had two children, Dorothy and Francis. She encouraged him to enter politics, and he became lord mayor of Birmingham in 1915 and a member of Parliament in 1918. Chamberlain became prime minister in 1937 and died in 1940, soon after leaving office. Anne outlived him by more than 26 years and died in 1967.
EARLY LIFE
Anne de Vere Cole was born in 1883, the daughter of Major William Utting Cole, an army officer, and his wife, Mary de Vere. Her father died in India when she was a child. Her brother was Horace de Vere Cole, a famous practical joker. She met Neville Chamberlain, a Birmingham businessman, through relatives, and they married on January 5, 1911, at St George's, Hanover Square, in London.
Anne and Chamberlain had two children, Dorothy and Francis. She encouraged him to enter politics, and he became lord mayor of Birmingham in 1915 and a member of Parliament in 1918.
She was active in Birmingham public life and worked for the National Birthday Trust Fund, which campaigned to reduce deaths in childbirth.
Chamberlain became prime minister in 1937 and died in 1940, soon after leaving office. Anne outlived him by more than 26 years and died in 1967.
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DEATH
Anne Chamberlain was the wife of the British prime minister Neville Chamberlain. Anne and Chamberlain had two children, Dorothy and Francis. She encouraged him to enter politics, and he became lord mayor of Birmingham in 1915 and a member of Parliament in 1918. She was active in Birmingham public life and worked for the National Birthday Trust Fund, which campaigned to reduce deaths in childbirth. Anne Chamberlain died on Feb 12, 1967, in London, England. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Anne Chamberlain, Neville Chamberlain’s wife. The diary letters were written by her husband to his sisters and are related family and political reading. Five dedicated biographies were not identified. These editorial selections include biographies where available, with personal writings, collective biography, reference works and related studies clearly labelled.
1. Neville Chamberlain: A Biography — Robert Self. [Related biography of her husband] Find on Amazon
2. Neville Chamberlain — H. Montgomery Hyde. [Related biography of her husband] Find on Amazon
3. Chamberlain and the Lost Peace — John Charmley. [Related political biography of her husband] Find on Amazon
4. The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters — Robert Self (editor). [Related husband’s primary correspondence; series counted once] Find on Amazon
5. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography — H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (editors). [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
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