Rise of Neville Chamberlain controversial biography of Chamberlain by Conservative Party chairman Iain Macleod defended Chamberlain's ministerial record. Macleod pointed out that Chamberlain had been a "most valiant" champion of rearmament as Chancellor as early as 1934, but that little was done. According to "Time" magazine, Macleod saw Chamberlain as a "humanitarian industrialist, <nowiki>[a]</nowiki> progressive Lord Mayor of Birmingham and a dedicated Minister of Health who was damned as a 'Tory socialist'<nowiki>[.]</nowiki> Chamberlain had worked tirelessly in the '20s and '30s for the 'noble and fascinating ideal' of fashioning a better life for Britain's workingman." The 1960s and 1970s saw a further reassessment of
Neville Chamberlain (bishop) the Evangelist, Edinburgh, a post he held for 15 years. He was Bishop of Brechin from 1997 to 2005. He was the Master of Sexey's Hospital. Chamberlain died on 8 October 2018. Neville Chamberlain (bishop) Neville Chamberlain (24 October 1939 – 8 October 2018), MA, BA was an eminent Anglican priest in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He was born on 24 October 1939 and educated at Salford Grammar School and the University of Nottingham and ordained in 1964. He was Assistant Curate at St Paul’s, Balsall Heath and then Priest in charge at St Michael’s Hall Green.