What is Austen Chamberlain?
{{nobelprize|Peace}} [[File:Sir (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain.jpg|thumb|right|Austen Chamberlain]] '''Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain,''' [[Order of the Garter|KG]] (16 October 1863 – 17 March 1937) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Politics|politician]]. He received the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 1925. His father was another important politician, [[Joseph Chamberlain]], and his half-brother (they had a different mother) was [[Neville Chamberlain]], [[Britain|British]] [[Prime Minister]] from 1937 to 1940. == Early life == Austen was born in Birmingham on the 16 October 1863, but two days later his mother died. His grandparents looked after him and his sister, Beatrice. Austen went to [[Rugby school]], a famous private school, and then studied at the [[University of Cambridge]]. He then studied in a [[politics|political]] college in [[Paris]] and at a [[university]] in [[Berlin]]. He returned to Britain in 1888. == Parliament == In 1892, Chamberlain became a [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Worcestershire]], as a member of his father's [[political party|party]], the Liberal Unionist Party. The Liberal Unionists worked to keep [[Ireland]] as a part of the [[United Kingdom]]. Chamberlain worked hard for his father, and in 1895 the [[prime minister]] gave him a job helping to run the [[Royal Navy]]. Chamberlain became important very quickly. In 1903, the new prime minister, [[Arthur Balfour|Balfour]] gave him the job of controlling the [[Royal Mail|Post Office]]. Then in 1904 he became [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]], responsible for the [[economy]]. In 1906, the government lost the [[general election]], and Chamberlain lost his job in the government. When his father became ill because of a [[stroke (medicine)|stroke]], he helped his father by fighting against [[Home Rule]], the plan to make [[Ireland]] [[independence|independent]]. In the [[First World War]], Chamberlain got the job responsible for [[India]], and after the war he became Chancellor of the Exchequer again. Here he helped Britain to [[wikt:recove