The Rt Hon Stanley Baldwin
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In office 7 June 1935 – 28 May 1937
Monarch	George V Edward VIII George VI
Preceded by	Ramsay MacDonald
Succeeded by	Neville Chamberlain
In office 4 November 1924 – 5 June 1929
Monarch	George V
Preceded by	Ramsay MacDonald
Succeeded by	Ramsay MacDonald
In office 23 May 1923 – 16 January 1924
Monarch	George V
Preceded by	Andrew Bonar Law
Succeeded by	Ramsay MacDonald
Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office October 27, 1922 – August 27, 1923
Prime Minister	Andrew Bonar Law
Preceded by	Robert Stevenson Horne
Succeeded by	Neville Chamberlain
Born	3 August 1867 Bewdley, Worcestershire, England
Died	14 December 1947 (age 80) Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, England
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Lucy Ridsdale
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge
Religion	Anglican

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Early life

Born at Lower Park House, Lower Park, Bewdley in Worcestershire, England, Baldwin was educated at St Michael's School, Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. His University career was blighted by the presence, as Master of Trinity, of the former schoolmaster who had punished him at Harrow for writing a piece of schoolboy smut. He was asked to resign from the Magpie & Stump (the Trinity College Debating Society) for never speaking, and after receiving a third-class degree in history went into the family business. As a young man he served very briefly as a Second Lieutenant in the Artillery Volunteers. He married Lucy Ridsdale on 12 September 1892. Bewdley ( pronunciation) is a small town in Worcestershire, England, along the Severn Valley a few miles to the west of Kidderminster. ... Worcestershire (pronounced ; abbreviated Worcs) is a county located in the West Midlands region of central England. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total... Hawtreys Preparatory School was an independent boys school in Slough, later in Oswestry, and still later near Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, and in its early years was known as St Michaels School. ... Harrow School, (originally: The Free Grammar School of John Lyon; generally: Harrow), is one of the worlds most famous schools. ... Full name The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity Motto Virtus vera nobilitas Virtue is true Nobility Named after The Holy Trinity Previous names King’s Hall and Michaelhouse (until merged in 1546) Established 1546 Sister College(s) Christ Church Master The Lord Rees of Ludlow Location Trinity Street... The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading scheme for undergraduate degrees (bachelors degrees and some masters degrees) in the United Kingdom. ... Second Lieutenant is the lowest commissioned rank in many armed forces. ... Lucy Baldwin, née Lucy Ridsdale (1869 – died 17th June 1945), Countess Baldwin of Bewdley was the wife of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

He proved to be very adept at the family business of iron manufacturing, and acquired a reputation as a modernising industrialist. Later, he would inherit £200,000 and a directorship of the Great Western Railway upon his fathers death in 1908. The original Bristol Temple Meads station, first terminus of the GWR, is the building to the left of this picture The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company, linking South West England, the West Country and South Wales with London. ...

In the 1906 general election he contested Kidderminster but lost amidst the Conservative landslide defeat after the party split on the issue of free trade. However, in 1908 he succeeded his deceased father, Alfred Baldwin, as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bewdley. During the First World War he became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Conservative leader Andrew Bonar Law and in 1917 he was appointed to the junior ministerial post of Financial Secretary to the Treasury where he sought to encourage voluntary donations by the rich in order the repay the United Kingdom's war debt, notably writing to The Times under the pseudonym 'FST'. He personally donated one fifth of his quite small fortune. He served jointly with Sir Hardman Lever, who had been appointed in 1916, but after 1919 Baldwin carried out the duties largely alone. He was appointed to the Privy Council in the 1920 Birthday Honours. In 1921 he was promoted to the Cabinet as President of the Board of Trade. The UK general election of 1906 was from 12th January – 8th February 1906. ... Kidderminster was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), the largest in terms of public membership, and the oldest political party in the United Kingdom. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Alfred Baldwin (4 June 1841 – 13 February 1908) was an English businessman and Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP). ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Alfred Baldwin was elected as MP for Bewdley in Worcestershire in 1892, holding the seat until his death, on 13 February 1908. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... A Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) is a junior role given to a United Kingdom Member of Parliament (MP). ... Andrew Bonar Law (16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923) was a Conservative Party British statesman and Prime Minister. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... In the United Kingdom, there are at least five Secretaries to the Treasury, officials officially acting as secretaries to the Treasury board. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1788. ... Sir (Samuel) Hardman Lever, 1st Baronet KCB (18 April 1869 - 1 July 1947) was a British Liberal politician. ... Her Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. ... The President of the Board of Trade the title of a cabinet position in the United Kingdom government. ...

In late 1922 dissatisfaction was steadily growing within the Conservative Party over its existing governing coalition with the Liberal David Lloyd George. At a meeting of Conservative MPs at the Carlton Club in October Baldwin announced that he would no longer support the coalition and famously condemned Lloyd George for being a "dynamic force" that was bringing destruction across politics. The meeting chose to leave the coalition—against the wishes of most of the party leadership. As a result the new Conservative leader Andrew Bonar Law was forced to search for new ministers for his Cabinet and so promoted Baldwin to the position of Chancellor of the Exchequer. In the November 1922 general election the Conservatives were returned with a majority in their own right. Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... This article is about the historic Liberal Party. ... David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British statesman who guided Britain and the British Empire through World War I and the postwar settlement as the Liberal Party Prime Minister, 1916-1922. ... The Carlton Club is a gentlemens club in London. ... Andrew Bonar Law (16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923) was a Conservative Party British statesman and Prime Minister. ... The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British Cabinet minister responsible for all economic and financial matters. ... The UK general election of 1922 was held on 15th November 1922. ...

First appointment as Prime Minister

In May 1923 Bonar Law was diagnosed with terminal cancer and retired immediately. With many of the party's senior leading figures standing aloof and outside of the government, there were only two candidates to succeed him: Lord Curzon, the Foreign Secretary, and Stanley Baldwin. The choice formally fell to King George V acting on the advice of senior ministers and officials. It is not entirely clear what factors proved most crucial, but some Conservative politicians felt that Curzon was unsuitable for the role of Prime Minister because he was a member of the House of Lords (though this did not stop other Lords being seriously considered for the premiership on subsequent occasions). Likewise, Curzon's lack of experience in domestic affairs, his personal character (found objectionable), and his aristocratic background at a time when the Conservative Party was seeking to shed its patrician image were all deemed impediments. Much weight at the time was given to the intervention of Arthur Balfour. Year 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, British statesman The Most Honourable George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (January 11, 1859 – March 20, 1925), was a conservative British statesman who served as Viceroy of India. ... The position of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs was created in the United Kingdoms governmental reorganization of 1782, in which the Northern and Southern Departments became the Home and Foreign Offices. ... George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from the British branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. ... The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as the Lords. The Sovereign, the House of Commons (which is the lower house of Parliament and referred to as the Commons), and the Lords together comprise the Parliament. ... Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1st Earl Balfour, KG, OM, PC (25 July 1848 - 19 March 1930) was a British Conservative politician and statesman, and the Prime Minister from 1902 to 1905. ...

The King turned to Baldwin to become Prime Minister. Initially Baldwin also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer whilst he sought to recruit the former Liberal Chancellor Reginald McKenna to join the government. When this failed he instead appointed Neville Chamberlain. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British Cabinet minister responsible for all economic and financial matters. ... Cover of Time Magazine (March 3, 1924) Reginald McKenna (1863-1943) was a Liberal British statesman who has recently achieved a limmited amount of noteriety following a recent biography by disgraced heart-throb and former Tory MP Martin Farr. ... Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940), known as Neville Chamberlain, was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. ...

The Conservatives now had a clear majority in the House of Commons and could govern for another five years before being constitutionally required to hold a new general election, but Baldwin felt bound by Bonar Law's old pledge at the previous election that there would be no introduction of tariffs without a further election. With the country facing growing unemployment in the wake of free-trade imports driving down prices and profits, Baldwin decided to call an early general election in December 1923 to seek a mandate to introduce protectionist tariffs and thus drive down unemployment. Although this succeeded in reuniting his divided party, the election outcome was inconclusive: the Conservatives won 258 MPs, Labour 191 and the Liberals 159. Whilst the Conservatives retained a plurality in the House of Commons, they had been clearly defeated on the central election issue of tariffs. Baldwin remained Prime Minister until the opening session of the new Parliament in January 1924, at which time the government was defeated in a motion of confidence vote. He resigned immediately. Type Lower House Speaker of the House of Commons Leader of the House of Commons Michael Martin, (Non-affiliated) since October 23, 2000 Harriet Harman, QC, (Labour) since June 28, 2007 Shadow Leader of the House of Commons Theresa May, PC, (Conservative) since December 6, 2005 Members 646 Political groups... A tariff is a tax on foreign goods. ... The UK general election of 1923 was held on 5th December 1923. ... Protectionism is the economic policy of restraining trade between nations, through methods such as high tariffs on imported goods, restrictive quotas, a variety of restrictive government regulations designed to discourage imports, and anti-dumping laws in an attempt to protect domestic industries in a particular nation from foreign take-over... A Motion of Confidence is a motion of support proposed by a government in a parliament or other assembly of elected representatives to give members of parliament (or other such assembly) a chance to register their confidence in a government. ...

Return to office

For the next ten months, an unstable minority Labour government under Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald held office, but it too fell and another general election was held in October 1924. This election brought a landslide majority of 223 for the Conservative party, primarily at the expense of the now terminally declining Liberals. Baldwin's new Cabinet now included many former political associates of Lloyd George: former Coalition Conservatives Austen Chamberlain (as Foreign Secretary), Lord Birkenhead (Secretary for India) and Arthur Balfour (Lord President after 1925), and the former Liberal Winston Churchill as Chancellor of the Exchequer. This period included the General Strike of 1926, a crisis which the government managed to weather, despite the havoc it caused throughout the UK. James Ramsay MacDonald (12 October 1866 – 9 November 1937) was a British politician and three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ... The 1924 UK general election was held on 29th October 1924. ... The UK General Strike of 1926 lasted nine days, from 3 May to 12 May 1926, and was called by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in an unsuccessful attempt to force the government to act to prevent wage reduction and worsening conditions for coal miners. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

At Baldwin's instigation Lord Weir headed a committee to 'review the national problem of electrical energy'. It published its report on May 14, 1925 and with it Weir recommended the setting up of a Central Electricity Board, a state monopoly half-financied by the Government and half by local undertakings. Baldwin accepted Weir's recommendations and they became law by the end of 1926. The Board was a success. By 1929 electrical output was up fourfold and generating costs had fallen. Consumers of electricity rose from three-quarters of a million in 1926 to nine million in 1929.^[1] William Douglas Weir, 1st Viscount Weir (1877 - 1959) was a British industrialist born in Glasgow. ... A committee is a (relatively) small group that can serve one of several functions: Governance: in organizations too large for all the members to participate in decisions affecting the organization as a whole, a committee (such as a Board of Directors) is given the power to make decisions. ... May 14 is the 134th day of the year (135th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The United Kingdom Central Electricity Board was set up under The Electricity (Supply) Act 1926 to standardise the nations electricity supply. ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1929 Labour returned to office, the largest party in the House of Commons (although without an overall majority) despite obtaining fewer votes than the Conservatives. In opposition, Baldwin was almost ousted as party leader by the press barons Lords Rothermere and Beaverbrook, whom he accused of enjoying "power without responsibility, the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages". The 1929 UK general election was held on 30th May 1929, and resulted in a hung parliament. ...

By 1931 Baldwin and the Conservatives had entered into a coalition with Labour PM Ramsay MacDonald. This decision led to MacDonald's expulsion from his own party, and Baldwin, as Lord President of the Council became de facto Prime Minister for the increasingly senile MacDonald, until he once again officially became Prime Minister in 1935. His government then secured with great difficulty the passage of the landmark Government of India Act 1935, in the teeth of opposition from Winston Churchill, whose views enjoyed much support among rank-and-file Conservatives. Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Office of Lord President of the Council is a British cabinet position, the holder of which acts as presiding officer of the Privy Council. ... De facto is a Latin expression that means in fact or in practice. It is commonly used as opposed to de jure (meaning by law) when referring to matters of law or governance or technique (such as standards), that are found in the common experience as created or developed without... 24. ...

In 1932 Baldwin would tell the Commons: "The bomber will always get through. The only defence is offence". He started a rearmament programme and reorganised and expanded the RAF, in the face of strong opposition from the opposition Labour Party. During his third term of office from 1935 to 1937 the worsening political situation on the Continent brought his own foreign policy under greater criticism, and he also faced the abdication crisis of King Edward VIII. With the abdication successfully weathered he would retire after the coronation of the new King George VI and was created Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ... The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Look up abdication in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; later The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972) was King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India from the death of his father, George V (1910–36), on 20... George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from 11 December 1936 until his death. ...

Later life

Baldwin's years in retirement were quiet. With Neville Chamberlain dead, Baldwin's perceived part in pre-war appeasement made him an unpopular figure during and after World War II. A newspaper campaign hounded him for not donating the iron gates of his country home to war production (they had in fact been exempted on grounds of artistic merit). During the war, Winston Churchill consulted him only once, on the advisability of Britain's taking a tougher line toward the continued neutrality of Éamon de Valera's Ireland (Baldwin advised against it). Appeasement is a policy of accepting the imposed conditions of an aggressor in lieu of armed resistance, usually at the sacrifice of principles. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Éamon de Valera (born with the name Edward George de Valera,IPA: [1][2]) (14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975) was one of the dominant political figures in 20th century Ireland. ...

In June 1945 Baldwin's wife Lucy died. Baldwin himself by now suffered with arthritis and needed a stick to walk. When he made his final public appearance in London in October 1947 at an unveiling of a statue of King George V. A crowd of people recognized the former Prime Minister and cheered him, but Baldwin by this time was deaf and asked, "Are they booing me?" Having been made Chancellor of Cambridge University in 1930, he continued in this capacity until his death in his sleep at Astley Hall, near Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, on 14 December 1947. He was cremated and his ashes buried in Worcester Cathedral. Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Lucy Baldwin, née Lucy Ridsdale (1869 – died 17th June 1945), Countess Baldwin of Bewdley was the wife of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. ... Arthritis (from Greek arthro-, joint + -itis, inflammation; plural: arthritides) is a group of conditions where there is damage caused to the joints of the body. ... George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from the British branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. ... This is a list of Chancellors of the University of Cambridge, from about 1246 to the present day: Hugh de Hotton, c. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Worcestershire (pronounced ; abbreviated Worcs) is a county located in the West Midlands region of central England. ... is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A plan of Worcester Cathedral made in 1836. ...

His estate was probated at £280,971.

Baldwin was essentially a One Nation Conservative. Upon his retirement in 1937 he had indeed received a great deal of praise; the onset of the Second World War would change his public image for the worse. Rightly or wrongly, Baldwin, along with Chamberlain and MacDonald, was held responsible for the United Kingdom's military unpreparedness on the eve of war in 1939. His defenders counter that the moderate Baldwin felt he could not start a programme of aggressive re-armament without a national consensus on the matter. Certainly, pacifist appeasement was the dominant mainstream political view of the time in Britain, France, and the United States. One Nation, One Nation Conservatism, or Tory Democracy is a term used in political debate in the United Kingdom to refer to one wing of the Conservative Party. ...

For Winston Churchill, however, that was no excuse. He firmly believed that Baldwin's conciliatory stance toward Hitler gave the German dictator the impression that Britain would not fight if attacked. Though known for his magnanimity toward political opponents such as Neville Chamberlain, Churchill had none to spare for Baldwin. "I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill," Churchill said when declining to send 80th birthday greetings to the retired prime minister in 1947, "but it would have been much better had he never lived." Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. ... Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940), known as Neville Chamberlain, was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. ...

An index entry in the first volume of Churchill's "History of the Second World War" records Baldwin "admitting to putting party before country" for his alleged admission that he would not have won the 1935 Election if he had pursued a more aggressive policy of rearmament. Churchill selectively quotes a speech in the Commons by Baldwin and gives the false impression that Baldwin is speaking of the general election when he was speaking of a by election in 1933 and omits altogether Baldwin's actual comments about the 1935 election "we got from the country, a mandate for doing a thing [a substantial rearmament programme] that no one, twelve months before, would have believed possible".^[2] In his speech on Baldwin's death, Churchill paid him a double-edged yet respectful tribute: "He was the most formidable politician I ever encountered".

First Government, May 1923 - January 1924

• Stanley Baldwin - Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons
• Lord Cave - Lord Chancellor
• Lord Salisbury - Lord President of the Council
• Lord Cecil of Chelwood - Lord Privy Seal
• William Clive Bridgeman - Home Secretary
• Lord Curzon of Kedleston - Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the House of Lords
• The Duke of Devonshire - Secretary of State for the Colonies
• Lord Derby - Secretary of State for War
• Lord Peel - Secretary of State for India
• Sir Samuel Hoare - Secretary of State for Air
• Lord Novar - Secretary for Scotland
• Leo Amery - First Lord of the Admiralty
• Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame - President of the Board of Trade
• Sir Robert Sanders - Minister of Agriculture
• Edward Frederick Lindley Wood - President of the Board of Education
• Sir Anderson Montague-Barlow - Minister of Labour
• Neville Chamberlain - Minister of Health
• Sir William Joynson-Hicks - Financial Secretary to the Treasury
• Sir Laming Worthington-Evans - Postmaster-General

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Changes

• August 1923 - Neville Chamberlain took over from Baldwin as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir William Joynson-Hicks succeeded Chamberlain as Minister of Health. Joynson-Hicks' successor as Financial Secretary to the Treasury was not in the Cabinet.

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Second Cabinet, November 1924 - June 1929

• Stanley Baldwin - Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons
• Lord Cave - Lord Chancellor
• Lord Curzon of Kedleston - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords
• Lord Salisbury - Lord Privy Seal
• Winston Churchill - Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Sir William Joynson-Hicks - Home Secretary
• Sir Austen Chamberlain - Foreign Secretary and Deputy Leader of the House of Commons
• Leo Amery - Colonial Secretary
• Sir Laming Worthington-Evans - Secretary of State for War
• Lord Birkenhead - Secretary of State for India
• Sir Samuel Hoare - Secretary for Air
• Sir John Gilmour - Secretary for Scotland
• William Clive Bridgeman - First Lord of the Admiralty
• Lord Cecil of Chelwood - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
• Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister - President of the Board of Trade
• Edward Frederick Lindley Wood - Minister of Agriculture
• Lord Eustace Percy - President of the Board of Education
• Lord Peel - First Commissioner of Works
• Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland - Minister of Labour
• Neville Chamberlain - Minister of Health
• Sir Douglas Hogg - Attorney-General

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Changes

• April 1925 - On Lord Curzon of Kedleston's death, Lord Balfour succeeded him as Lord President. Lord Salisbury becomes the new Leader of the House of Lords, remaining also Lord Privy Seal.
• June 1925 - The post of Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs is created and held by Leo Amery in tandem with Secretary of State for the Colonies.
• November 1925 - Walter Guinness succeeds E.F.L. Wood as Minister of Agriculture.
• July 1926 - The post of Secretary of Scotland is upgraded to Secretary of State for Scotland.
• October 1927 - Lord Cushendun succeeded Lord Cecil of Chelwood as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
• March 1928 - Lord Hailsham (former Sir D. Hogg) succeeded Lord Cave as Lord Chancellor. Lord Hailsham's successor as Attorney-General was not in the Cabinet.
• October 1928 - Lord Peel succeeded Lord Birkenhead as Secretary of State for India. Lord Londonderry succeeded Lord Peel as First Commissioner of Public Works

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Third Cabinet, June 1935 - May 1937

• Stanley Baldwin - Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons
• Lord Hailsham - Lord Chancellor
• Ramsay MacDonald - Lord President of the Council
• Lord Londonderry - Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords
• Neville Chamberlain - Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Sir John Simon - Home Secretary and Deputy Leader of the House of Commons
• Sir Samuel Hoare - Foreign Secretary
• Malcolm MacDonald - Colonial Secretary
• J.H. Thomas - Dominions Secretary
• Lord Halifax - Secretary for War
• Lord Zetland - Secretary of State for India
• Lord Swinton - Secretary of State for Air
• Sir Godfrey Collins - Secretary of State for Scotland
• Bolton Eyres-Monsell - First Lord of the Admiralty
• Walter Runciman - President of the Board of Trade
• Walter Elliot - Minister of Agriculture
• Oliver Stanley - President of the Board of Education
• Ernest Brown - Minister of Labour
• Sir Kingsley Wood - Minister of Health
• William Ormsby-Gore - First Commissioner of Works
• Anthony Eden - Minister without Portfolio with responsibility for League of Nations Affairs
• Lord Eustace Percy - Minister without Portfolio with responsibility for government policy

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Changes

• November 1935 - Malcolm MacDonald succeeds J.H. Thomas as Dominions Secretary. Thomas succeeds MacDonald as Colonial Secretary. Lord Halifax succeeds Lord Londonderry as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords. Duff Cooper succeeds Lord Halifax as Secretary for War. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister becomes Viscount Swinton and Bolton Eyres-Monsell becomes Viscount Monsell, both remaining in the Cabinet.
• December 1935 Anthony Eden succeeds Sir Samuel Hoare as Foreign Secretary and is not replaced as Minister without Portfolio.
• March 1936 - Sir Thomas Inskip enters the cabinet as Minister for the Coordination of Defense. Lord Eustace Percy leaves the cabinet.
• May 1936 - William Ormsby-Gore succeeds J.H. Thomas as Colonial Secretary. Lord Stanhope succeeds Ormsby-Gore as First Commissioner of Works.
• June 1936 - Sir Samuel Hoare succeeds Lord Monsell as First Lord of the Admiralty.
• October 1936 - Walter Elliot succeeds Collins as Secretary for Scotland. William Shepherd Morrison succeeds Elliot as Minister of Agriculture. Leslie Hore-Belisha enters the Cabinet as Minister of Transport.

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In film and television

Baldwin has appeared in the following productions:

• The Forsyte Saga (1967 adaptation), played by Ralph Michael
• The Woman I love (1972), played by Robert Douglas
• Days of Hope (1975), played by Brian Hayes
• Edward and Mrs Simpson (1978), played by David Waller
• The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (1981), played by Paul Curran
• Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981), played by Peter Barkworth
• The Woman He Loved (1988), played by David Waller
• You Rang, M'Lord? (1991), played by Patrick Blackwell
• The Gathering Storm (2002), played by Derek Jacobi
• Wallis & Edward (2005), played by Richard Johnson

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Miscellaneous

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• Baldwin was a cousin of the author and journalist Rudyard Kipling.
• His son, Oliver Baldwin, was a Labour MP.
• Baldwin is the last Prime Minister to have been educated at the University of Cambridge. ^[3]
• Baldwin (along with Arthur Balfour) is one of six Prime Ministers to have been educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.
• He was a low church Anglican.
• He once claimed that if he were stranded on a desert island with only one book for company, he would choose the Oxford English Dictionary.^[4]
• His niece, Monica Baldwin, gained brief notoriety after penning her best-selling memoir I Leap Over the Wall recounting the 28 years she spent as a nun in complete ignorance and isolation of the outside world before World War I until halfway through World War II and her subsequent shocking re-immersion into modern society.

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Notes and references

The University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, collectively known as Oxbridge, are the two oldest and most famous universities in Britain. ...

External links

• More about Stanley Baldwin on the Downing Street website.