Sir Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937)

Awarded the Prize “for his help in bringing about the Locarno Pact, a group of treaties intended to secure peace in western Europe by eliminating the possibility of border disputes involving Germany.”

British politician. Chamberlain was born on October 16, 1863 at Birmingham, Engl. After graduating from Cambridge, he spent nine months at the école des Sciences Politiques in Paris twelve months in Berlin. In 1892, he took a seat in the House of Commons. During World War I, he was secretary of state for India a member of the war Cabinet. After the war, he became chancellor of the Exchequer became Conservative Party leader. Later he was appointed to the office as a foreign secretary. Chamberlain died on March 16, 1937 in London.
Major Works:
Down the Years Politics from Inside (1936)