Beatrice Chamberlain
Educationist and political organizer
Beatrice Chamberlain (25 May 1862 – 19 November 1918) was a British educationalist and political organizer.
Life
Chamberlain was born in Edgbaston in 1862. Her 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. Her 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 was devoted to her aunt, Caroline Kenrick. Her early education was at Edgbaston High School for Girls. As a girl Beatrice dominated her shyer brother Austen.
Her 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 took over as carer and governess to her half siblings: Neville, Ida, Hilda, and Ethel.
Beatrice continued her education in Fontainebleau at Les Ruches, a private school for girls.
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