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Baldwin, Stanley, 1867-1947 (1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, statesman)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1867 - 1947

Biography

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, was a British Conservative statesman who dominated the government of the United Kingdom between the world wars, serving as Prime Minister on three occasions. He was born on 3 August 1867 in Lower Park, Bewdley, the son of industrialist Alfred Baldwin. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, before joining the family iron and steel business. He was elected a Conservative M.P. in 1906, and in December 1916 became Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Andrew Bonar Law. Thereafter, Baldwin served in David Lloyd George's government as Junior Lord of the Treasury, Financial Secretary to the Treasury and President of the Board of Trade. He became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1922, and Prime Minister in 1923. Baldwin lost the 1929 General Election, but served as President of the Council in the new National Government, before replacing Ramsey MacDonald as Prime Minister in June 1935. He resigned in 1937, and was later made Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. He died on 14 December 1947. Baldwin's son, Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin (1899-1958), was Viscount Corvedale, later 2nd Earl Baldwin, author, journalist and M.P.

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

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Collected letters and related material, 26 Aug. 1897-1982

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8770
Scope and Contents

Letters from Baldwin to various people, 1896-1947; letters from Arthur Windham Baldwin, 3rd Earl Baldwin, to Derek Pepys Whiteley, 1958-1968; memorandum of a conversation with Baldwin, 1938, by J.W. Robertson Scott, editor of The countryman; a speech, 'The unfailing genius of Rudyard Kipling', given to the Kipling Society in 1967 by the 3rd Earl Baldwin; newscuttings on Stanley Baldwin.

Dates: 26 Aug. 1897-1982
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Collected newscuttings and photographs, 1923-1982

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8771
Scope and Contents

Newscuttings on Baldwin and the Abdication Crisis; reviews of books on Baldwin and family; photographs of Baldwin (1925), of a portrait drawing by W. Rothenstein (1928) and of a R.G. Eves painting in the National Portrait Gallery (c. 1933); obituary of the 2nd Lord Hardinge of Penshurst; letters and articles about Baldwin; and Lord Baldwin. A memoir, by Tom Jones, an obituary in The Times expanded into a pamphlet.

Dates: 1923-1982
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Conservative Party 1929 Election, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 11/1
Scope and Contents

Columbia recordings of speeches by Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister: Part 1 [side 1], "Conservative Achievements"; Part 2 [side 2], "Trade and Unemployment".

Dates: 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Access copy available.
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Correspondence, 1923-01 - 1929-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/3/6
Scope and Contents Correspondents, mainly on colonial affairs, particularly Imperial Preference, include: George Lloyd [Governor of Bombay, India] on [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain's resignation from the Conservatives and the steadying effect of the new Government; [William] Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, looking ahead to the Imperial Conferences; William Gritten; 1st Lord Long of Wraxall; J L Garvin [Editor of the Observer], urging a quick General Election (November 1923) (2); Sir John Chancellor...
Dates: 1923-01 - 1929-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence 1934-1935, 1934-1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/D42/4
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include Stanley Baldwin, A. W. Ellis, John Holroyd-Reece, Paul Johnston, Douglas Leighton, J. Ramsay MacDonald, George Macy, Curtis Moffat, C. H. Norman, Quentin Pope, Oliver Simon, and John de la Valette. With the correspondence are a typescript costing of publications for 1935, and a typescript (carbon copy) memorandum from W. C. Heaton and Company Certified Public Accountants to George Macy re: Nonesuch Press dated 29 July 1935.

Dates: 1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Correspondence of Windham Baldwin concerning G. M. Young's biography of Stanley Baldwin

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7938
Dates: 3 Apr. 1946-7 Feb. 1954 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence relating to Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley: photocopy letters, 30 May 1925-15 Sep. 1977

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8781/36-39
Dates: 30 May 1925-15 Sep. 1977
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Stanley Baldwin to Alan S.W. Dore, 7 July 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/221
Scope and Contents

Can Dore find a job for a man at Blackwall?; he was convicted of a theft and Customs cannot take him back

Dates: 7 July 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Stanley Baldwin to Alan S.W. Dore, 15 Nov. 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/222
Scope and Contents

Engagements at Cambridge

Dates: 15 Nov. 1932
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Stanley Baldwin to Alan S.W. Dore, 16 June 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/224
Scope and Contents

Thanks for congratulations [on earldom?]; future plans

Dates: 16 June 1937
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Stanley Baldwin to Alan S.W. Dore, 11 Jan. 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/225
Scope and Contents

Glad to have news of Dore, after Norway episode

Dates: 11 Jan. 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Stanley Baldwin to Alan S.W. Dore (1882-1953), 17 June 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/220
Scope and Contents

Thanks for congratulations; 'I have now got all the honours I ever wanted.'

Dates: 17 June 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Stanley Baldwin to Sir Edward Poynter (1882-1968), 21 June 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/223
Scope and Contents

He always speaks extempore from notes; he got Geoffrey Dawson to send his reporter's note; with transcript of notes of Baldwin's address, 16 June [1933], at opening of Centenary Exhibition of painting and drawings of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Tate Gallery

Dates: 21 June 1933
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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G.D. Pepys Whiteley: Collected letters of Stanley Baldwin and related material

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8770-8771
Dates: 1896-1982
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Journal (London and Geneva)

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LKEN 1/4
Scope and Contents

Includes copy of letter sent by the Young Conservatives to Stanley Baldwin, March 1924, Ramsay MacDonald's views on Foreign Policy, February 1924, and other cuttings and papers

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Letter from Baldwin, Stanley (11 Downing Street, Whitehall, London), 16 Oct. 1932

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7653/1/B/1
Scope and Contents From the sub-subseries:

MS Add.7653/1/i/B/465
Letter from Butler, Nicholas Murray 1910

Dates: 16 Oct. 1932
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The MS Add.7653 Ernest Rutherford papers are owned by the University of Cambridge and are open for consultation under the normal regulations of the University Library's manuscripts collections; see http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/manuscripts/. The only limitations to use are in respect of the low-level radioactivity of a small number of items in the collection. Further advice is available from the Manuscripts Reading Room staff.
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Letter from Baldwin, Stanley (11 Downing Street, Whitehall, London), 2 Feb. 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7653/1/B/2
Scope and Contents From the sub-subseries:

MS Add.7653/1/i/B/465
Letter from Butler, Nicholas Murray 1910

Dates: 2 Feb. 1933
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The MS Add.7653 Ernest Rutherford papers are owned by the University of Cambridge and are open for consultation under the normal regulations of the University Library's manuscripts collections; see http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/manuscripts/. The only limitations to use are in respect of the low-level radioactivity of a small number of items in the collection. Further advice is available from the Manuscripts Reading Room staff.
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Letter from Baldwin, Stanley (11 Downing Street, Whitehall, London), 12 Feb. 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7653/1/B/3
Scope and Contents From the sub-subseries:

MS Add.7653/1/i/B/465
Letter from Butler, Nicholas Murray 1910

Dates: 12 Feb. 1933
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The MS Add.7653 Ernest Rutherford papers are owned by the University of Cambridge and are open for consultation under the normal regulations of the University Library's manuscripts collections; see http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/manuscripts/. The only limitations to use are in respect of the low-level radioactivity of a small number of items in the collection. Further advice is available from the Manuscripts Reading Room staff.
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Letter from Baldwin, Stanley (11 Downing Street, Whitehall, London), 14 Feb. 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7653/1/B/4
Scope and Contents From the sub-subseries:

MS Add.7653/1/i/B/465
Letter from Butler, Nicholas Murray 1910

Dates: 14 Feb. 1935
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The MS Add.7653 Ernest Rutherford papers are owned by the University of Cambridge and are open for consultation under the normal regulations of the University Library's manuscripts collections; see http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/manuscripts/. The only limitations to use are in respect of the low-level radioactivity of a small number of items in the collection. Further advice is available from the Manuscripts Reading Room staff.
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Letter from Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1867-1941) to Arthur W. Perowne, Bishop of Worcester, 14 Apr. 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8781/35
Scope and Contents

He cannot think of such a speech or treatise as Perowne requires

Dates: 14 Apr. 1935
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from Stanley Baldwin to E.M. Forster, 1937-03-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/EMF/18/32
Scope and Contents

1 typed letter, signed, to E.M. Forster.
To request this document please use the following call mark: vol. 8/24

Dates: 1937-03-04
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
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Letter from Stanley Baldwin to M.R.James, April 5 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7184/B16
Dates: April 5 1925
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from Stanley Baldwin to M.R.James, December 3 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7481/B17
Dates: December 3 1933
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letters from Stanley Baldwin to J.M. Keynes, 1924 - 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/JMK/PP/45/16
Scope and Contents

4 autograph letters, signed.

Dates: 1924 - 1943
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
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Letters from Stanley Baldwin to JTS, 1930 - 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/JTS/2/9
Scope and Contents

5 autograph letters signed.

Dates: 1930 - 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
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