Neville's father Joseph Chamberlain Junior was a businessman who moved to Birmingham in 1854 at the age of eighteen, after joining his father and uncle in an enterprise manufacturing screws incorporated as Nettlefold and Chamberlain.
内维尔的父亲小约瑟夫·张伯伦 (Joseph Chamberlain Junior) 是一名商人, 1854 年, 他十八岁那年搬到了伯明翰,此前他与父亲和叔叔一起经营了一家名为 Nettlefold and Chamberlain 的螺丝制造企业。