Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was prominent in the political leadership of the United Kingdom between the world wars. He was pri
Baldwin in 1932
Astley Hall near Stourport On Severn, Baldwin's home between 1902 and 1947
W. L. Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada (left) and Baldwin at the Imperial Conference, October 1926
Edward VIII, later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in December of the same year.
Stanley Baldwin
…denounced the Defence White Paper of 1937: "I do not believe the Government are going to get any safety through these armaments". The accession of King Edward VIII, and the ensuing abdication crisis, brought Baldwin's last major test in office. The new monarch was "an ardent exponent of the cause of Anglo-German…
As a midshipman on board HMS Hindustan, 1911
In August 1915, during the First World War