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Oct 2, 2024 · After retiring from politics in 1937, Stanley Baldwin was elevated to the peerage as Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. Despite stepping away from active political life, he remained involved in public affairs and continued to be consulted on matters of national importance.
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who dominated the government of the United Kingdom between the...
Sep 27, 2024 · Its earliest occupant was the first Earl of Pomfret, whose wife's diaries refer in November 1741 to coming to live 'at our hired House in Upper-Brooke-street'. Lady Pomfret was familiar with William Kent, to whose design a 'Great Glass' was installed in the drawing-room shortly afterwards.
Sep 18, 2024 · Earl Baldwin of Bewdley – grandson of former PM Stanley Baldwin – was one of 92 hereditary peers in the chamber who owe their title and their place in Parliament to the family into which they were born.
Sep 25, 2024 · This began life as the Merthyr Tydfil Educational Settlement and was formally opened in July 1938 by Earl Baldwin and Countess Baldwin. At that time there were many such Settlements providing education and welfare services to people during the Depression of the 1930s.
Sep 26, 2024 · Baldwin, the seventh Earl, was, in 1240, created Earl of the Isle of Wight; his son Baldwin, the last Earl of the family, and the fifth of that Christian name, dying without issue, his sister, Isabel de Fortibus, who had married William de Fortibus, Earl of Albemarle, became Countess of Devon in her own right.
Sep 18, 2024 · The 4th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley is the grandson of Stanley Baldwin – the three-time Conservative prime minister. He was awarded a hereditary peerage in 1937 – meaning membership of the House of Lords for him and his eldest son was to be automatic, forever.
