Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson was a British diplomat who served as the ambassador of the United Kingdom to Germany from 1937 to 1939.
Ambassador Henderson in office, May 1937
Henderson with Chamberlain and Ribbentrop at Hotel Petersberg, September 1938
Henderson leaves for Berlin, Croydon Airport, August 1939
Henderson's memorial in St Andrew's Church, Nuthurst, West Sussex
Arthur Neville Chamberlain was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940 and Leader of the Conservative Party from May 1937 to October 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938, ceding the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler. Following the invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, which marked the beginning of the Second World War, Chamberlain announced the declaration of war on Germany two days later and led the United Kingdom through the first eight months of the war until his resignation as prime minister on 10 May 1940.
Portrait by Walter Stoneman, 1921
Joseph Chamberlain (seated) and Austen Chamberlain, 1892
Chamberlain as Lord Mayor of Birmingham in May 1916, alongside Prime Minister Billy Hughes of Australia
Portrait by William Orpen, 1929