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Preceded by: Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen: Succeeded by: Sir William Joynson-Hicks: Paymaster General; In office 5 February 1923 – 15 March 1923: Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain, prime minister of the United Kingdom from May 28, 1937, to May 10, 1940, whose name is identified with the policy of ‘appeasement’ toward Adolf Hitler’s Germany in the period immediately preceding World War II. Learn more about Chamberlain’s life and career in this article.
Apr 2, 2014 · Neville Chamberlain was the British prime minister as Great Britain entered World War II. He is known for his policy of "appeasement" toward Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany.
Sep 30, 2013 · Seventy-five years after the Munich Agreement signed with Hitler, the name of Neville Chamberlain, British prime minister at the time, is still synonymous with weakness and appeasement.
Aug 4, 2023 · In the 1930s, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and the British government pursued a policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany to avoid war. Learn more.
May 17, 2018 · Neville Chamberlain. Born March 18, 1869 Birmingham, England Died November 9, 1940 Hampshire, England English statesman who was prime minister from 1937 to 1940. Neville Chamberlain is best known for his failure to fend off war with dictators Benito Mussolini of Italy and Adolf Hitler of Germany. For many years his policy of compromise with these leaders—known as appeasement—was criticized ...
Neville Chamberlain was born to a political family, being the youngest son of Joseph Chamberlain, a Victorian Cabinet minister, and the half-brother of Austen, a Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Arthur Neville Chamberlain was born on 18 March 1869 in Birmingham into a political family. His father, Joseph, was an influential politician of the late 19th century and Neville's older half ...
Neville Chamberlain was born in 1869. He was the son of the great, and divisive, Birmingham politician Joseph Chamberlain. Neville was educated at Rugby School, and then worked in business, spending six years trying to establish a sisal plantation in the Bahamas.
When Neville Chamberlain succeeded Stanley Baldwin as prime minister on May 28, 1937, he was convinced that “there is no one else,” and he thought that the office had also perhaps come to him “because I have not made enemies by looking after myself rather than the common cause.”
