Henry Chamberlain (historian)
Henry Chamberlain may refer to: *Sir Henry Chamberlain, 1st Baronet (1773–1829), British diplomat * Sir Henry Chamberlain, 2nd Baronet (1796–1843), British Army officer and artist **For subsequent Chamberlain baronets, see Chamberlain baronets *Henry Chamberlain (Michigan politician) (1824–1907), Michigan politician * Henry Chamberlin (1825–1888), New Zealand politician often spelled Chamberlain *Henry Chamberlain, a character on the TV series ''The Secret Circle'' *Boeta Chamberlain (Henry Chamberlain, born 1999), South African rugby union player See also * *Chamberlain (surname) Chamberlain is an English-language, English surname. In English, it means an attendant for a sovereign or lord in his bedchamber, or a chief officer in the household of a king or nobleman. List of people Notable people with this surname include: *A ...

Sir Henry Chamberlain, 1st Baronet
Sir Henry Chamberlain, 1st Baronet (1773– 31 July 1829) was a British diplomat, Consul (representative)#consul general, consul general to Portugal and chargé d'affaires to Brazil. He was created a baronet on 22 February 1828. Henry was a natural son of the Honourable Henry Fane (1739–1802), Henry Fane, Clerk to H.M. Treasury, a younger son of Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland. He was brought up with the rest of Fane's children as a supposed distant relative, but when Chamberlain expressed interest in one of Fane's daughters (his half sister), he was informed of his true parentage and posted to Portugal in 1829 to become consul general, sailing on board HMS Briton (1812), HMS ''Briton''. On 1 January 1795 he married firstly Elizabeth Harrod, of Exeter, and in 1813 they were divorced by an Act of Parliament. Their children were: * Sir Henry Chamberlain, 2nd Baronet (2 October 1796 – 8 September 1843) * William Augustus Chamberlain (1797–1806) * Eliza Carolin ...
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Sir Henry Chamberlain, 2nd Baronet
Captain Sir Henry Chamberlain, 2nd Baronet (2 October 1796 – 8 September 1843) was a British Army officer of the Royal Artillery and an artist whose series of drawings of Brazil were well known in his time. He was the second of the Chamberlain baronets, as the eldest son and heir of Sir Henry Chamberlain, 1st Baronet, a British diplomat in Brazil, and his first wife Elizabeth Harrod. While a lieutenant of the ''Royal Artillery'', he visited his father in Brazil in 1819–20. While there, he painted a series of views and costumes of the city and neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The University of Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies has an album of drawings by him, done during the years 1819 and 1820, with descriptive explanations. His watercolours formed the basis of a famous album of 36 lithographs, each accompanied by a detailed explanation of the particular subject, entitled ''Views and Costumes of the City and Neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro''. He tried to illustrat ...
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Chamberlain Baronets
The Chamberlain Baronetcy was created for Henry Chamberlain in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 22 February 1828. Chamberlain baronets, of London (1828) *Sir Henry Chamberlain, 1st Baronet (1773 – 31 July 1829) *Sir Henry Chamberlain, 2nd Baronet (2 October 1796 – 8 September 1843) *Sir Henry Orlando Robert Chamberlain, 3rd Baronet (15 December 1828 – 30 December 1870) *Sir Henry Hamilton Erroll Chamberlain, 4th Baronet (22 November 1857 – 28 June 1936) *Sir Henry Wilmot Chamberlain, 5th Baronet (17 May 1899 – 24 December 1980). Extinct on his death. References

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