Baldwin, Stanley, 1867-1947 (1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley and Prime Minister)

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Dates

Existence: 1867 - 1947

Biography

Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947) 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 3 Collections and/or Records:

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Letters of Stanley Baldwin to John Parke Boyle and Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin (Viscount Corvedale)

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9569

Scope and Contents

The letters listed below from Stanley Baldwin to his elder son Oliver are additional to those acquired by the University Library at auction in 1989 (MS Add.8795). John Boyle (1893-1969) was Oliver Baldwin's companion for thirty-five years from 1923. He had Conservative sympathies and great charm, and was liked by both Oliver's parents.

Dates: 25 Aug. 1923-23 June 1946 (Circa)

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Found in: Cambridge University Library / Letters of Stanley Baldwin to John Parke Boyle and Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin (Viscount Corvedale)

Fonds

Stanley Baldwin: Letters to Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8795

Scope and Contents

49 letters to Oliver Baldwin, containing mostly family and personal news, with occasional references to the strain of political life. There is also 1 letter from the Shropshire Archaeological Society to Stanley Baldwin, 17 June 1937, on his Earldom, and congratulating him for selecting Corvedale, a Shropshire place name, for his subsidiary title.

Dates: 1916-1947

Found in: Cambridge University Library / Stanley Baldwin: Letters to Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin

Fonds

Stanley Baldwin Papers

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Baldwin

Scope and Contents The collection now at Cambridge has certain limitations. In the first place, it comprises only Baldwin's political papers: family and personal papers are not included. Secondly, it is perhaps more revealing of Baldwin's colleagues than of the man himself. As G.M. Young observed in the preface to his biography, Baldwin "kept no diary, circulated no memoranda to his colleagues, rarely wrote a political letter, and still more rarely made a copy of anything he did write". Thirdly, there is...

Dates: 1905-1955

Found in: Cambridge University Library / Stanley Baldwin Papers

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Baldwin, Stanley, 1867-1947 (1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley and Prime Minister)

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Letters of Stanley Baldwin to John Parke Boyle and Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin (Viscount Corvedale)

Stanley Baldwin: Letters to Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin Papers

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