Ronald Arthur Chamberlain (19 April 1901 – 12 May 1987) was a British music lecturer, housing consultant and Labour politician.

[9] In a review of a performance he gave at the Aeolian Hall, The Times described Chamberlain as a "competent pianist" who "would be something more than that if he would develop a more personal style.

"[10] In the 1930s, Chamberlain underwent a change of career, emerging first as the secretary of the National Federation of Housing Societies and then, later, as the chief executive officer to the Miners' Welfare Commission.

In April 1947 Chamberlain was elected to Middlesex County Council to fill a casual vacancy in the representation of Hendon West.

[18][19] In 1951, he stood for election to the party's National Executive Committee as a Bevanite candidate, without success[20] – although, in a letter to The Times written earlier that year, he claimed he was not a Bevanite nor a sectarian supporter of the Attlee administration, but representative of a "third way" approach that sought, above else, an independent British foreign policy that would "provide a bridge between the ideologies of the United States and the U.S.S.R."[21] In 1971 he resigned from the Labour Party over its support for trade unions, whose only purpose he claimed was the "continual forcing up of wage rates, regardless of their less fortunate brothers and sisters and equally regardless of the public interest.