Grand Ladies

Mary Crowninshield Endicott became the Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain’s third wife in 1888. She was from Salem, Massachusetts, USA which is famous for witchcraft trials conducted in 1692 and 1693. Joseph Chamberlain had a child by Harriet Kenrick and four more by Florence Kenrick. Joseph and Florence's last child, Aurthur Neville Chamberlain, became PM, but did not deal appropriately with Adolf Hitler so he is known history for appeasing a dictator. Joseph and Mary did not have children. The best biographical information I can find, and the source of most of the images, has ths, “...In late spring of 1916, Mrs. Chamberlain became engaged to another older, widowed, English gentleman: the Reverend William Hartley Carnegie, a Canon and Sub-Dean of Westminster Cathedral. They were married in August…"

1891 Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain by John Everett Millais (Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery - Birmingham, UK)

1899 Back l. to r. Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940), Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937) and Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) front l. to r. - Miss H. Chamberlain and Mrs. Mary Chamberlain (née Endicott)

1902 Mary Crowninshield Endicott Chamberlain (Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain) by John Singer Sargent (National Gallery of Art - Washington, DC, USA)

1903 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain

1890 Worth dress of Mary Crowninshield Endicott Chamberlain (Fashion Museum - Bath, Somerset, UK)

1903 Worth dress of Mary Crowninshield Endicott Chamberlain (National Gallery of Australia - Canberra, ACT, Australia)