Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain

Sir Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain, (13 January 1856 – 28 May 1944) was an officer in the British Indian Army. He was later Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabulary, and resigned in the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. He is credited with having invented the game of snooker while serving in Jubbulpore (Jabalpur), India, in 1875. Early life Chamberlain was born into a military family, in Birmingham, Warwickshire as the son of Charles Francis Falcon Chamberlain and his wife Marianne Ormsby Drury. He was also the nephew of Neville Bowles Chamberlain. He was educated at Brentwood School, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Military career Chamberlain was commissioned a sub-lieutenant in the 11th Foot on 9 August 1873, and promoted to lieutenant in August 1874. In 1878, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, he joined the staff of Field Marshal Sir Frederick Roberts, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in Afghanistan. Chamberlain was wounded slightly at the Battle of Kandahar. He served with Roberts at Ootacamund between 1881 and 1885. He was promoted to captain on 9 August 1885, to brevet major on 7 November 1885, and to brevet lieutenant-colonel on 1 July 1887. In 1890 he became Military Secretary to the Kashmir Government. He was promoted to brevet colonel on 6 January 1894. He was promoted to colonel on 6 February 1899, when he was appointed Colonel on the Staff in Delhi.