List of honours of Stanley Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin received numerous honours in recognition of his career in politics. These included:
Hereditary Peerage
[edit]Baldwin was elevated to the House of Lords on 8 June 1937, upon his standing down as Leader of the Conservative Party and from his seat in the House of Commons. He took the title of Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, with the subsidiary title of Viscount Corvedale, of Corvedale in the County of Salop. He sat with the Conservative Party.
Coat of arms
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Commonwealth honours
[edit]- Commonwealth Realms
Country | Date | Decoration | Post-nominal letters |
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![]() | 1897 – 14 December 1947 | Justice of the Peace for the County of Worcestershire | JP |
![]() | 5 June 1920 – 14 December 1947 | Member of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council | PC |
![]() | 2 August 1927 – 14 December 1947 | Member of the King's Privy Council for Canada | PC |
![]() | 28 May 1937 – 14 December 1947 | Knight of the Order of the Garter | KG |
- Decorations and medals
Country | Date | Decoration | Post-nominal letters |
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![]() | 12 May 1937 | King George VI Coronation Medal |
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Foreign honours
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Other distinctions
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Scholastic
[edit]- University Degrees
Location | Date | School | Degree |
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![]() | Trinity College, Cambridge | Third-class honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) in History | |
![]() | Mason College | Metallurgy |
- Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector and fellowships
Location | Date | School | Position |
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![]() | 1923 – 1926 | University of Edinburgh | Rector |
![]() | 1928 – 1931 | University of Glasgow | Rector |
![]() | 1929 – 1947 | University of St Andrews | Chancellor |
![]() | 1930 – 1947 | University of Cambridge | Chancellor |
![]() | 1930 – 1947 | Girton College, Cambridge | Visitor |
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- Honorary Degrees
Location | Date | School | Degree |
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![]() | 12 June 1923 | University of Cambridge | [1] |
![]() | 1925 | University of Oxford | Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) [2] |
![]() | 26 January 1934 | University of Liverpool | [3] |
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Memberships and fellowships
[edit]Country | Date | Organisation | Position |
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![]() | 1927 – 14 December 1947 | Royal Society | Fellow (FRS) |
![]() | 1938 | Marylebone Cricket Club | President [4] |
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Freedom of the City
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15 November 1923: Worcester.[5]
13 March 1925: Leeds.
8 August 1925: Bewdley.[6]
5 October 1925: Glasgow.[7]
14 June 1926: Edinburgh.[8]
1928: Aberystwyth[9]
Places named after Baldwin
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Canada (British Columbia) Mount Stanley Baldwin (1927).
References
[edit]- ^ "Honorary degrees at Cambridge University . Lord Grey and Mr Stanley Baldwin . 12 June 1923 | Alfieri – Europeana Collections". Archived from the original on 3 September 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- ^ "Stock Photo – 'Honorary Degree at Oxford', 1925, (1945). Creator: Unknown".
- ^ "Lord Derby and the University of Liverpool". Nature. 133 (3353): 168. 1 February 1934. Bibcode:1934Natur.133S.168.. doi:10.1038/133168c0.
- ^ "About MCC | MCC".
- ^ "Mr Baldwin Freedom of Worcester".
- ^ "Mr. Baldwin receives the freedom of Bewdley. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister, was made the first honorary freeman of the ancient borough of Bewdley, England, on Saturday, August 8th ... / Photo by Underwood & Underwood, New York". Library of Congress.
- ^ "Mr Baldwin".
- ^ "Mr. Baldwin".
- ^ "Honorary Freemen – Aberystwyth Council".