Sir Henry Chamberlain, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry Chamberlain, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry Orland Chamberlain, 1st Baronet (1773^[1]– 31 July 1829) was a British diplomat, consul general to Portugal and charge d'affaires to Brazil. He was created a baronet on 22 February 1828.

Henry was a illegitimate son of the Hon. Henry Fane, MP, Clerk to H.M. Treasury, the younger son of Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland.^[2] 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 daughter's (his half sister), he was informed of his true parentage and posted to Portugal in 1834 to become consul general, sailing on board HMS Briton.^[3]

He married firstly 1 January 1795, Elizabeth née Harrod, from Exeter, (divorced in 1813 by Act of Parliament). Their children were:

• Sir Henry Chamberlain, 2nd Baronet
• William Augustus Chamberlain (1797–1806)
• Eliza Caroline Chamberlain (d. 11 December 1887), who married 2 December 1819, Rear Admiral the Hon. Charles Orlando Bridgeman (d. 13 April 1860), second son of Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Earl of Bradford.

Henry Chamberlain remarried, 5 June 1813 to Anne Eugenia, daughter of William Morgan. Their children were:

• Anne Beresford Chamberlain (1815 - ). Born Rio de Janeiro
• Harriett Mary Chamberlain (1816 - ). Born Rio de Janeiro
• William Charles Chamberlain (21 April 1818 – 1878), Born Rio de Janeiro Rear Admiral, R.N.
• Neville Bowles Chamberlain (10 January 1820 – 1902),Born Rio de Janeiro, Field Marshal.
• Crawford Trotter Chamberlain (1821–1902), General of the Indian Staff Corps.
• Thomas H. Chamberlain (13 Sep 1822), Born Rio de Janeiro
• Charles Francis Falcon Chamberlain (1826–1870), Lieutenant-Colonel in the Indian Army.

Sources

• Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, edited by Peter Townend, 105th edition, London. 1970. p. 516. 
• Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
• Template:Baptismal Register Christ Church, Rio de Janeiro

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