Joseph Chamberlain Amongst the dignitaries present were former Prime Minister Arthur Balfour, Bonar Law, Chamberlain's sons Austen and Neville (then Lord Mayor of Birmingham), and other members of the Chamberlain, Hutton and Martineau families. Winston Churchill called Chamberlain "a splendid piebald: first black, then white, or, in political terms, first fiery red, then true blue". This is the conventional view of Chamberlain's politics, that he became gradually more conservative, beginning to the left of the Liberal party and ending to the right of the Conservatives. An alternative view is that he was always a radical in home affairs and an imperialist in
John Lawrence (Lord Mayor) and Governor of the Irish Society again from 1690 to 1692. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1673. Lawrence was buried at his death in St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate. He had married and had children. One daughter married Sir George Vyner, 2nd Baronet, son of Sir Thomas Vyner (Lord Mayor from 1653 to 1654), and another married Charles Chamberlain (Alderman from 1687 to 1688). John Lawrence (Lord Mayor) Sir John Lawrence (died 26 January 1692) was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1664. Lawrence was a city of London merchant and a