Personal Life
Chamberlain had a wife and three children. During the 1920s, Chamberlain lived at a house called Twytts Gryll in Fir Toll Road, Mayfield, East Sussex. He sold the house in 1929. R.C.G. Foster said "e kept himself quite aloof from the village and was not popular with his neighbours". He had an interest in rock gardening.
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