Robert Arthur Briggs Chamberlain (31 January 1865 – 4 February 1948) was an early British settler in the East Africa Protectorate, now modern day Kenya.
His staunch opposition to the importation of Chinese labour for the Rand gold mines was so unpopular that he resigned his editorship of the Star.
[2] In June 1903 Chamberlain visited the East Africa Protectorate with a scheme to re-settle 100 South African farmers and with a guarantee of 500,000 acres in the White Highlands.
The grant was initially approved by Sir Charles Eliot, Commissioner of the Protectorate, but was later cancelled by the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Lansdowne.
Despite this setback Chamberlain pressed his claim, appealing first to Viscount Milner, then High Commissioner for Southern Africa, and subsequently the Colonial Office.