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William Chambers junior. William Chambers junior was born at Valenciennes on 24 May 1809 and, like his father, was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. William senior was not actually married to his mother, Emma Maria Adams of Jamaica, although she was presented as 'Mrs Chambers' following the family's return to Britain and William senior's inheritance of the Stepney estate.
Merle Catherine Chambers (born 1946) [1] is an American lawyer, business executive, and philanthropist. She was founder and CEO of Axem Resources, a private oil and gas exploration and production company, from 1980 to 1997, and since 1997 is the president and CEO of Leith Ventures, a private investment firm.
Chambers is a practicing Muslim after converting to the faith in 2023 and currently resides in Tunis, Tunisia, where he is a sponsor of Club Africain. [10] [6] Chambers previously lived in New Hampshire and the Berkshires region of Massachusetts. [1] [11] His wealth is self-reported to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. [1]
Whittaker Chambers ran this "dirt farm" as a dairy farm. [4] The first tract of land, a 40-acre (16 ha) parcel, purchased by Chambers in 1941, formed the original core of the farm. Chambers lived there from 1941. After a fire in 1957, he sold it to an architect, who built the present house in 1960. Since then, the family has reacquired the ...
The name 'Pumpkin Papers" arose from four or five rolls of camera film hidden in a pumpkin at the Whittaker Chambers Farm in December 1948. The Pumpkin Papers are a set of typewritten and handwritten documents, stolen from the US federal government (thus information leaks) by members of the Ware Group and other Soviet spy networks in Washington, DC, during 1937–1938, withheld by courier ...
Chambers was a member of the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation. He is the Founding Chairman of the Points of Light Foundation and co-founded America's Promise Alliance with Colin Powell. Chambers is also the co-founder of the MENTOR / National Mentoring Partnership and served as Chairman of the Millennium Promise Alliance.
Margaret Goyder Kerr, in her book Colonial Dynasty – the Chambers family of South Australia, makes the point that the two men were physically quite different, both in build and temperament, and John wore a green satin patch over his blind right eye, so would never be confused by contemporaries. The historian however has great difficulty: they ...
Chambers House is a historic home located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1890 and is a two-story, frame dwelling in the Queen Anne style. It features cross gables, bay windows, and a wrap-around porch.