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 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 Chamberla ... (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 * {{Use dmy dates, date=March 2012 Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom ...
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Baronetage Of The United Kingdom
Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain. Baronetage of England (1611–1705) James I of England, King James I created the hereditary Order of Baronets in England on 22 May 1611, for the settlement of Ireland. He offered the dignity to 200 gentlemen of good birth, with a clear estate of Pound sterling, £1,000 a year, on condition that each one should pay a sum equivalent to three years' pay to 30 soldiers at 8d per day per man (total – £1,095) into the King's Exchequer. The Baronetage of England comprises all baronetcies created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union 1707, Act of Union in 1707. In that year, the Baronetage of England and the #Baronetage of Nova Scotia (1625–1706), Baronetage of Nova Scotia were replaced by the #Baronetage of Great Britain, Baronetage of Great Britain. The extant baronetcies ar ...
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Escutcheon Of The Chamberlain Baronets Of London (1828)1
Escutcheon may refer to: * Escutcheon (heraldry), a shield or shield-shaped emblem, displaying a coat of arms * Escutcheon (furniture), a metal plate that surrounds a keyhole or lock cylinder on a door * (in medicine) the distribution of pubic hair * (in archaeology) decorated discs supporting the handles on hanging bowls * (in malacology) a depressed area, present in some bivalves behind the beaks The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure found mostly in birds, but also in turtles, non-avian dinosaurs and a few mammals. A beak is used for eating, preening, manipulating objects, killing prey, fighting, probing for food, ...

Sir Henry Chamberlain, 1st Baronet
Sir Henry Chamberlain, 1st Baronet (1773– 31 July 1829) was a British diplomat, 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, 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''. 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 Caroline Chamberlain (d. 11 December 1887), who on 2 December 1819 married the Hon. ...
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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 illustrate ...
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