Arthur Neville Chamberlain was born on March 18, 1869, in Birmingham.
He studied at Rugby School and Mason College (later University of Birmingham).
Chamberlain followed his father and older half-brother in becoming a Member of Parliament in the 1918 general election at age 49. He declined a junior ministerial position, remaining a backbencher until he was appointed Postmaster General after the 1922 general election.
He was rapidly promoted in 1923 to Minister of Health and then Chancellor of the Exchequer but presented no budget before the government fell in 1924.
He returned as Minister of Health, introducing a range of reform measures from 1924 to 1929.
He was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in the coalition National Government in 1931 and spent six years reducing the war debt and the tax burden.
When Stanley Baldwin retired after the abdication of Edward VIII and the coronation of George VI, Chamberlain took his place as Prime Minister in 1937.
Chamberlain served as Prime Minister from 1937-1940.
Chamberlain died on November 9, 1940, in Highfield Park, Hampshire.
Chamberlain's legacy is marked by his policy regarding the appeasement of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany with his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding Czechoslovakia to Hitler.
In the same year he also gave up the Irish Free State Royal Navy ports.
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