Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whanau ia i Frelighsburg, Lower Canada i te tau 1827, te tama a Brown Chamberlin, he taote. I ako ia i te Whare Wānanga o McGill, a, i karangatia ia ki te kaari i te tau 1850. I mahi a Chamberlin hei kairipoata me te kaiwhakaputa i te "Montreal Gazette" mai i te 1853 ki te 1867. I muri mai ka hokona e ia te pepa ki a Richard raua ko Thomas White. I whakarerea e ia tana nohoanga i te Whare o te Whare i te wa i whakaingoatia ai ia hei Kaiwhakaputa o te Kuini i Ottawa i te 1870; I mau a Chamberlin i tenei pou tae noa ki te 1891. I mahi ia hei kaitiaki-koroneela i roto i te ope taua o te rohe, a, i whakaingoatia hei hoa o te Order o St Michael me St George mo tana mahi ki te whakakore i te
Ko nga kaipahua Fenian i Eccles Hill. He Freemason hoki ia, he mema hoki o te Civil Service Lodge No. 148, i Ottawa. I mate a Chamberlin i Lakefield, Ontario i te 70 o ona tau.