Sir Henry Chamberlain, 1st Baronet
Sir Henry Chamberlain, 1st Baronet 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, he was informed of his true parentage, moved quickly to Portugal, later to be posted to Brazil ca 1813 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
- William Augustus Chamberlain
- Eliza Caroline Chamberlain, who on 2 December 1819 married the Hon. Charles Orlando Bridgeman RN, second son of Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Earl of Bradford.
- Anne Beresford Chamberlain
- Harriett Mary Chamberlain
- William Charles Chamberlain, born Rio de Janeiro Rear Admiral, R.N.
- Neville Bowles Chamberlain, born Rio de Janeiro, Field Marshal, British Army
- Crawford Trotter Chamberlain, General of the Indian Staff Corps
- Thomas H. Chamberlain, born Rio de Janeiro
- Charles Francis Falcon Chamberlain, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Indian Army