British peerage title created in 1937 for Stanley Baldwin
Earldom Baldwin of Bewdley
Arms of the Earl Baldwin
Creation date
8 June 1937
Created by
King George VI
Peerage
Peerage of the United Kingdom
First holder
Stanley Baldwin
Present holder
Benedict Baldwin, 5th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
Remainder to
1st Earl's heirs male of the body lawfully begotten
Subsidiary titles
Viscount Corvedale
Seat(s)
Manor Farm House
Former seat(s)
Astley Hall
Motto
With the help of my God I leap over the wall
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
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 served as MP for Bewdley from 1908 to 1937 and was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times (from 1923 to 1924, from 1924 to 1929 and from 1935 to 1937). He was made Viscount Corvedale, of Corvedale in the County of Salop, at the same time he was given the earldom.[1]
The first Earl Baldwin of Bewdley was succeeded by his eldest son, Oliver. A somewhat controversial figure, the second Earl was a Labour Party Member of Parliament and for a time sat opposite his father in the House of Commons. As a homosexual, Oliver had no children, so on his death the title passed to his younger brother, Arthur, the third Earl.[2]
The peerage was held by Arthur's son, Edward, the fourth Earl, who succeeded in 1976. He became one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, and sat as a cross-bencher until retiring under the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 in May 2018.
Alfred Baldwin, father of the first Earl, was also a politician.
The family seat was Astley Hall near Astley, Worcestershire, and is now Manor Farm House near Wolvercote, Oxfordshire.
^"No. 34405". The London Gazette. 8 June 1937. p. 3663.
^"The 4th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley Obituary". The Times. 24 June 2021.
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