Hilda Chamberlain

Caroline "Hilda" Chamberlain (16 May 1872 – 28 December 1967) was a British political organiser and activist.

Life Chamberlain was born in 1872 in Edgbaston. Her parents were Florence (born Kenrick) and Joseph Chamberlain. Her father was a leading statesman who had been married before. Her mother died in childbirth in 1875 and her elder half sister Beatrice became her de facto parent.

In 1914 her father died after being paralysed from a stroke for nearly eight years. During this period she and Ida had given up their own aspirations and social life to care for him, which may be the reason they did not marry.

He left £20,000 to each of his daughters. She and Ida bought the "Bury House" ), which dated from the 1600s and had good transport links to London.

At the new house at Christmas 1914 they began to plan new works. Hilda was to get involved with creating parcels to go to prisoners of war. In 1935 she became the organisation's national treasurer.