Chaplin's personality enabled him to make friends across the political spectrum, and after his death the Labour MP George Lansbury wrote in the "Daily Herald": "Our best friends were the late Henry Chaplin, Lord Long and Gerald Balfour; they all, at least, tried to understand us". His Conservative colleague Walter Long said Chaplin was "a fine speaker of the old-fashioned school, and delivered many great “orations” from his place in Parliament, and was one of the most deservedly popular men that ever lived". Chaplin's friend Lord Willoughby de Broke said he possessed a geniality and kindliness that contributed to his popularity: