IMDb > Neville Chamberlain > Biography
Date of Birth
18 March 1869, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, UK

Date of Death
9 November 1940, Heckfield, Hampshire, England, UK (throat and stomach cancer)

Birth Name
Arthur Neville Chamberlain

Nickname
The Coroner

Height
6' 2" (1.88 m)

Trivia

British Conservative Prime Minister (28 May 1937 - 10 May 1940).

Cousin of Alan Napier, half-brother of the Conservative party leader and Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and a younger son of the statesman Joseph Chamberlain.

A Conservative Lord Mayor of Birmingham, who entered Parliament in middle age.

Chamberlain was often lauded during his tenure as Prime Minister for keeping Britain out of war with Germany: Today, however, he is denigrated as the archetype of a politician who bends over backwards to appease a dictator to avoid war.

He was portrayed by Terrence Hardiman in the original production of the play "Never So Good", by Howard Brenton , which premiered at the National Theatre, London, UK in March 2008.


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