The seat for East Worcestershire vacated by the expulsion of
Mr. G. W. Hastings from the House of Commons, was filled up on Wednesday without a contest, by the unopposed election of Mr. Chamberlain's eldest son, Mr. Austen Cham- berlain, though the seat is to be contested, it is said, at the General Election. Mr. Austen Chamberlain was educated at Rugby and Cambridge, where he took his M.A. in 1889, and he has studied both in Paris and in Berlin. In Paris he at- tended the lectures of M. Ribot (the present Minister of Foreign Affairs), and also those of M. Leon Say. At Berlin he made a special study of the laws for compulsory insurance- against accident, sickness, and old age. We have thus in Mr. Austen Chamberlain, a staunch Unionist of culture and pro- mise, who will put the question of the Union above every other political issue of the day, though he has mastered the difficulties of many other questions of less immediate im- portance.
Previous page
