11 Facts About Beatrice Chamberlain

Beatrice Chamberlain was a British educationalist and political organizer.

Beatrice Chamberlain's father was Joseph Chamberlain, a local industrialist who later became Mayor of Birmingham and a Cabinet minister and was, for roughly thirty years until he suffered a stroke in 1906, one of the most consequential figures in British politics.

Beatrice Chamberlain's mother was Harriet Kenrick, the sister of William Kenrick MP.

Beatrice was her parents' eldest child; the birth of her younger brother Austen Chamberlain took the life of her mother.

Beatrice Chamberlain's father married again and had four children, but the birth of the fifth child took the life of his second wife, Florence, and the newborn in 1875.

Beatrice Chamberlain continued her education in Fontainebleau at Les Ruches, a private school for girls.

Beatrice Chamberlain was free to gather funds for the Children's Country Holidays Fund while she helped manage primary schools in Hammersmith and Fulham.

Beatrice Chamberlain was involved with preparations for peace, acting as an advisor to the Ministry for Reconstruction.

Beatrice Chamberlain died in Kensington in 1918 in the flu pandemic.

Beatrice Chamberlain's obituary noted that she had the "mind of a Great Man".

Beatrice Chamberlain's siblings, including her half-sister Ethel, who died in 1905, had all admired her.