Earl Baldwin of Bewdley is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1937 for the Conservative

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 politician Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC was a British Conservative politician, who dominated the government in his country between the two world wars...

. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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 from 1923 to 1924, from 1924 to 1929 and from 1935 to 1937. Baldwin was made Viscount Corvedale, of Corvedale in the County of Salop

Shropshire

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, at the same time he was given the earldom. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Oliver, as the second Earl. A somewhat controversial figure, Oliver was a Labour Party

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 Member of Parliament

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 and sat opposite his father in the House of Commons

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. On Oliver's death the titles passed to his younger brother, Arthur, the third Earl. the peerages are held by the Arthur's son, Edward, the fourth Earl, who succeeded in 1976. Edward is one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords

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 after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999

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, and sits as a cross-bencher.

Alfred Baldwin, father of the first Earl, was also a politician.

The family seat is Manor Farm House, in Wolvercote

Wolvercote

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, Oxfordshire

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.

Earls Baldwin of Bewdley (1937)

• Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
  Stanley Baldwin
  Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC was a British Conservative politician, who dominated the government in his country between the two world wars...
  
   (1867–1947)
• Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
  Oliver Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
  Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley , known as Viscount Corvedale from 1937 to 1947, was a British politician who had a quixotic career at political odds to his father, three-time Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.Baldwin was educated at Eton College, and grew up in the shadow of his...
  
   (1899–1958)
• Arthur Windham Baldwin, 3rd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
  Arthur Baldwin, 3rd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
  Arthur Windham Baldwin, 3rd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley was a British insurance company director and World War II RAF officer. He was the son of Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl of Baldwin of Bewdley and Lucy Ridsdale....
  
   (1904–1976)
• Edward Alfred Alexander Baldwin, 4th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
  Edward Baldwin, 4th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
  Edward Alfred Alexander Baldwin, 4th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley is a British educator and Crossbench elected hereditary peer in the House of Lords....
  
   (b. 1938)

The heir apparent

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is the present holder's son Benedict Alexander Stanley Baldwin, Viscount Corvedale (b. 1973)