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    Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC, PC (Can), JP, FRS (3 August 1867 – 14 December 1947) was a British statesman and Conservative politician...
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  • with his father, the Conservative prime minister Stanley Baldwin. Educated at Eton, which he hated, Baldwin left as soon as he could. After serving in the...
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    Liberals as the main opposition party to the Conservative government of Stanley Baldwin, making MacDonald Leader of the Opposition. By now, he had moved away...
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    Exchequer in the National Government in 1931. Chamberlain succeeded Stanley Baldwin as prime minister on 28 May 1937. His premiership was dominated by...
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    Earl Baldwin of Bewdley is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1937 for the Conservative politician Stanley Baldwin, who had...
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  • father, Stanley Baldwin, the former prime minister of the UK, in which he severely criticised several leading historians of the time. Baldwin was the...
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  • Tomes (1901–1980). His paternal grandparents were Lucy Baldwin and Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, three-time Prime Minister of the United...
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  • Baldwin ministry may refer to: First Baldwin ministry, the British majority (later caretaker) government led by Stanley Baldwin from 1923 to 1924 Second...
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    election, Baldwin was again re-elected, with a decreased vote share of 36.2% and a decreased majority of 6,547. Married to James Stanley Baldwin since 2004...
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    He most notably served as President of the Board of Education under Stanley Baldwin between 1924 and 1929. Percy was born into a noble family: he was the...
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    affairs that worried both his father and the British prime minister, Stanley Baldwin. Upon his father's death in 1936, Edward became the second monarch...
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    maternal health. From 1892 until her death in 1945, she was the wife of Stanley Baldwin, three-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. She was invested...
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    although the country was not renamed officially until 1927, when Stanley Baldwin was the serving prime minister. The incumbent prime minister is Keir...
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    at his advanced HQ Lawrence Farm. They later worked together in the Stanley Baldwin ministries of the 1920s, when Cunliffe-Lister served as a minister...
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  • 2nd Baronet married Lady Margaret Baldwin, daughter of the Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. Sir Herbert Huntington-Whiteley...
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    Minister Stanley Baldwin in The King's Speech (2010). Andrews was born in London, the son of Geraldine Agnes (née Cooper), a dancer, and Stanley Thomas...
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    number of other Cabinet positions. Mooted as a possible successor to Stanley Baldwin as party leader for a time in the very early 1930s, he was widely considered...
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    speak at the University of Toronto. He was still a firm protégé of Stanley Baldwin. In June 1932, on the sudden death of Sir Donald Maclean, he returned...
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    Stanley Baldwin, the Conservative Prime Minister. Baldwin was the 12th and posthumously born child of George Pearce Baldwin and Sarah Chalkley Stanley. He...
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    critical of the detrimental effect of socialism on Australia and to which Stanley Baldwin wrote a foreword. In November 1928, with Austen Chamberlain away on...
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    Conservative backbenchers, led by the President of the Board of Trade Stanley Baldwin and influenced by the recent Newport by-election, which was won from...
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    two years out of Parliament, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Stanley Baldwin's Conservative government, returning sterling in 1925 to the gold standard...
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    Conservative Party politician, best known for his close alliance with Stanley Baldwin. Initially a civil servant, Davidson was private secretary to Bonar...
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    returned to the government in the 1920s and served under Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1922 to 1923, as Lord...
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  • the 1920s, often relying on patriotic themes. In 1922, Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin led the breakup of the coalition, and the Conservatives governed until...
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    from Stanley Baldwin to Winston Churchill Charles III – 3, from Liz Truss to Keir Starmer George I – 1, Robert Walpole Edward VIII – 1, Stanley Baldwin Eight...
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  • 1st Earl of Birkenhead David Lloyd George Bonar Law Stanley Baldwin Ramsay MacDonald Stanley Baldwin E. F. L. Wood, Lord Irwin (1881–1959) 3 April 1926...
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    sense, it refers primarily to the governments of Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain which held office from 1931 until 1940.[citation...
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    office but was passed over in favour of Stanley Baldwin. He remained as Foreign Secretary until 1924 when the Baldwin government fell, and died a year later...
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    to 1923) and then the first Baldwin ministry (from 1923 onwards). The government was led by Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin, appointed respectively as Prime...
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