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Neville Chamberlain spent six years there but the plantation was a failure, and Joseph Chamberlain lost £50,000 [a] [10] (equivalent to £7,295,000 in 2025). [11] On his return to England, Neville Chamberlain entered business, purchasing (with assistance from his family) Hoskins & Company, a manufacturer of metal ship berths. [12]
The 21 seats secured in 1935 and the 12 seats secured at the subsequent 1945 general election were the last occasions that the Liberal Party would win more than ten seats at an election until 1966, and the 1935 election was the last time that the party would win more than 20 seats before its alliance and merger with the Social Democratic Party ...
Joseph Chamberlain sent his two sons to the Bahamas to investigate in November 1890, and they recommended the venture. Neville Chamberlain was assigned to manage the undertaking, and in early 1891, the 22-year-old took out a lease on 26,000 acres (110 km 2) on the island of Andros. [9] He spent most of the next six years on Andros.
Neville Chamberlain was the serving prime minister. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to the Nazi regime. He said it brought "peace in our time" and was widely applauded. He also stepped up Britain's ...
General election 1918: Birmingham Ladywood (new seat) [1] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative: Neville Chamberlain 9,405 69.5 Labour: John Kneeshaw: 2,572 19.0 Liberal: Margery Corbett Ashby: 1,552 11.5 Majority 6,833 50.5 Turnout: 13,529 40.6
This is a list of members of Parliament elected at the 1935 general election, held on 14 November.Due to the onset of the Second World War, this was the last general election before 1945, making it the longest UK parliament in history and the longest parliament to sit in Westminster since the Cavalier Parliament of 1661–1679.
Neville Chamberlain: 1935–1937 Minister without Portfolio: Anthony Eden: 1935 Minister without Portfolio: Lord Eustace Percy: 1935–1936 First Lord of the Admiralty: Bolton Eyres-Monsell (from November 1935 as The Viscount Monsell) 1935–1936 Sir Samuel Hoare: 1936–1937 President of the Board of Trade: Walter Runciman: 1935–1937 ...
The 1945 United Kingdom general election was a national election held on Thursday 5 July 1945, ... Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin, ...