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Oliver Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley

Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1 March 1899 – 10 August 1958), known as Viscount Corvedale from 1937 to 1947, was a British socialist politician who had a career at political odds with his father, the Conservative prime minister Stanley Baldwin.

The Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
14 December 1947 – 10 August 1958
Hereditary Peerage
Preceded byThe 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
Succeeded byThe 3rd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
Member of Parliament for Paisley
In office
5 July 1945 – 14 December 1947
Preceded byJoseph Maclay
Succeeded byDouglas Johnston
Member of Parliament for Dudley
In office
30 May 1929 – 7 October 1931
Preceded byCyril Edward Lloyd
Succeeded byDudley Jack Barnato Joel
Personal details
Born(1899-03-01)1 March 1899
St Ermin's Mansions, London, England
Died10 August 1958(1958-08-10) (aged 59)
Mile End, London, England
Political partyLabour
Domestic partnerJohn Boyle
Parents

Educated at Eton, which he hated, Baldwin left as soon as he could. After serving in the army during the First World War he undertook various jobs, including a brief appointment as an officer in the Armenian army, and wrote journalism and books on a range of topics. He served two terms as a Labour Member of Parliament between 1929 and 1947.

Baldwin never achieved ministerial office in Britain. His last post was as Governor of the Leeward Islands, from 1948 to 1950.

Early years edit

Baldwin was born at his parents' London home in St Ermin's Mansions, St James's Park, London,[1][2] and spent his early childhood in Worcestershire, first at Dunley Hall, near Stourport, Worcestershire, and then at Astley Hall near Stourport, after the Baldwin family moved there in 1902.[3] Baldwin was one of six surviving children, and the elder surviving son of the businessman Stanley Baldwin and his wife Lucy, née Ridsdale.[4]

The family-unit was emotionally close, and Baldwin's parents loving and supportive, though his father was, like many parents of that class at that time, not closely involved in his children's lives.[5] Baldwin senior was elected a Conservative MP in 1908, and rose within fifteen years to become prime minister. He sent his son to Eton College, where the boy failed to fit in. He hated what he saw as the school's snobbery and cruelty,[6] and to his teachers he appeared to be "full of silliness, egotism, un-divine discontent, contempt for others (and of course for authority, discipline, tradition etc)".[7]

His Who's Who entry states that he was educated "in football at Eton; in other things, beginning to learn".[8] He was keen to leave school and join the army to fight in the First World War,[9] and was commissioned from his officer cadet unit as a second lieutenant in the Special Reserve of the Irish Guards on 27 June 1917.[10] He did not join the fighting in France until June 1918,[11] but then distinguished himself by his bravery.[12] He was promoted to lieutenant on 27 December 1918[13] and relinquished his commission on 1 April 1920.[14] His war service strengthened his idealism and increasingly socialist views.[6]

Career edit

Post-war and 1920s edit

After the war Baldwin served briefly as British Vice-Consul in Boulogne, and then travelled in north Africa. He refused to be supported by his father, and earned a living as a journalist and travel writer. A chance meeting in Alexandria led to an appointment as an infantry instructor in the newly independent Armenia, but soon after he took up the post in 1920 the democratic government collapsed and Baldwin was imprisoned by Bolshevik-backed revolutionaries. He was freed two months later when democracy was restored, but en route back to Britain he was arrested by the Turkish authorities, accused of spying for Soviet Russia.[15] He was held for five months, in grim conditions, with execution a constant threat.[16] He later wrote a book about his experiences, called Six Prisons and Two Revolutions.[12] After his release Baldwin returned to Britain.

 
Baldwin's father, Stanley in the 1920s

In 1923, around this time, the leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister Bonar Law retired due to ill health. Baldwin's father, Stanley, already Chancellor of the Exchequer, became prime minister in Law's place. The younger Baldwin by now considered himself a committed socialist, and shortly after his father's elevation, he publicly declared his political beliefs, and broke off contact with his parents, much to their distress.[17] At the 1924 general election Baldwin contested the seat of Dudley for the Labour Party, attracting press comment. He was unsuccessful; but Baldwin Snr, who had been out of power since the 1923 general election, returned to power for a second term as prime minister.[12] Shortly afterwards, the breach between parents and son was patched up. Father and son remained on the warmest personal terms, assisted by agreement to avoid political discussions, and in politics Baldwin refrained from personally attacking his father.[18][6]

At the 1929 election Baldwin won Dudley, and served as a backbench supporter of Ramsay MacDonald's Labour government. His father had lost the election, but remained an MP, and became Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons; unusually, father and son now sat facing each other across the House of Commons. Baldwin Snr initially found it difficult to bear, telling one of his daughters that he ‘nearly died’ when he first saw Oliver sitting on the opposite benches to himself in the House of Commons, but matters were smoothed over by a letter Baldwin wrote to console his father: "Wherever I have gone on my political rounds during the past six years I have never heard any of our supporters speak other than in a kindly way of your personal self… To you, who have generally been victorious, the results may disappoint you, but take it from one who, until the other day, has always been on the losing side, always in the minority and generally alone, that victory or defeat are both flatterers and as such are of no serious consequence."[17][19]

Like other young left-wing Labour MPs, Baldwin was critical of MacDonald's insistence on strict financial management and refusal to launch large Keynesian public works programmes.[20] Early in 1931 Baldwin resigned from the Labour Party and was briefly associated with Oswald Mosley's New Party, but soon repudiated Mosley and rejoined Labour.[20] When MacDonald formed the National Government, Stanley Baldwin and the Conservatives joined it; most Labour members, including Oliver Baldwin, did not. The 1931 general election resulted in a landslide win for the National Government and a disaster for Labour. Baldwin was among the casualties, defeated by a Conservative candidate, Sir Park Goff, who won by 19,991 votes to Baldwin's 10,837 at Chatham.[21] Baldwin returned to journalism. In Walker's view, he was better known as a journalist than as a politician, writing anti-fascist articles in the usually pro-appeasement Rothermere press during the 1930s.[6] He also wrote what the reviewer Andrew Lycett calls "a curious novel called The Coming of Aissa, which emphasised the socialistic leanings of Jesus within an agnostic, Asian, neoplatonic context."[6]

Later years edit

Baldwin fought Paisley at the 1935 election, failing to be elected by 389 votes behind the Liberal candidate.[22] In 1937 Stanley Baldwin retired from politics and was created Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. As a result, Oliver Baldwin acquired the courtesy title Viscount Corvedale, which did not entail membership of the House of Lords. In 1939, he rejoined the army, becoming a major in the Intelligence Corps and serving in the Near East and north Africa.[23][12]

At the 1945 general election, when Labour returned to power under Clement Attlee, Corvedale was elected for Paisley with a majority of 10,330.[24] The Attlee government lacked representation in the House of Lords, which was dominated by Conservative peers. In 1947, Corvedale accepted the prime minister's offer of a peerage, but before he could take his seat his father died and Corvedale was automatically elevated as the second Earl Baldwin. Lycett comments that had it not been for the first earl's death Baldwin father and son would, uniquely, have sat opposite each other in both houses of parliament.[6]

Governor of the Leeward Islands 1948–1950 edit

In February 1948, Baldwin was appointed Governor and Commander in Chief of the Leeward Islands, a British colonial territory in the Caribbean, arriving there a month later.[25]

His male life partner, Boyle, accompanied him, to the disapproval of some of the British establishment in Antigua. There were rumours of "strange and unnatural happenings at Government House" that were reinforced by complaints from naval captains whose crews had been commandeered by the governor for nude bathing sessions.[26]

Partly for this reason, and partly because Baldwin made no secret of his continuing socialist views or his desire for multiracial inclusiveness, he was recalled in 1950.[6]

Personal life edit

In 1922, he was briefly engaged to Dorothea ("Doreen") Arbuthnot, the daughter of a political ally of his father.[27] Coming to terms with the fact that he was homosexual, Baldwin broke off the engagement, and settled with John "Johnnie" Parke Boyle (30 July 1893 – 24 February 1969), son of Major Charles Boyle, of Great Milton, Oxfordshire.[26][28]

Described in The New Statesman as "a charming ne'er-do-well",[6] Boyle, who was six years older than Baldwin, became his lifelong partner.[29] Boyle and Baldwin set up home together in a farm in Oxfordshire owned by Boyle's brother in law, Lord Macclesfield, and living in what the biographer Christopher J Walker describes as "gentle, amicable, animal-loving, primitive, homosexual socialism".[30] Though the two had to be careful and corresponded in code, they employed good-looking male staff and held weekend parties attended by vetted friends such as Harold Nicolson and Beverley Nichols.[26]

Baldwin's family appears to have been accepting of the situation, apart from his father's first cousin, Rudyard Kipling, with whom Baldwin had been close, but who broke all contact on hearing of Baldwin's "beastliness".[26] Baldwin Snr, though perhaps not Mrs Baldwin, probably recognised Baldwin and Boyle were a couple. Unusually for the period, both parents accepted Boyle's place in Baldwin's life. The elder Baldwin's letters to Boyle are addressed to "My Dear Johnny", a mark of favour,[31] while Boyle won Mrs Baldwin over by showing her "in effect, the attentions of a dutiful son-in-law." During Baldwin Snr's time in office, the two elders would occasionally travel from the prime ministerial country retreat of Chequers to visit their son and his partner at their Oxfordshire farmhouse.[17]

Death edit

 
Baldwin's tombstone on a hilltop on the island of Antigua.

Baldwin died in Mile End Hospital, London, in 1958. He was unmarried and was succeeded in the earldom and viscountcy by his younger brother Arthur.[12] His ashes are interred on a hilltop on the island of Antigua. The stone inscription reads, Here lie the ashes of Oliver Ridsdale Second Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Born March 1899 Died August 1958. Governor, Commander in Chief in and over the Leeward Islands and Vice Admiral of the same 1948 – 1950. He loved the people of these islands. RIP.[citation needed]

Books edit

  • Konyetz: novel published under the pen name Martin Hussingtree, 1924
  • Six Prisons and Two Revolutions: memoirs, 1924
  • Socialism and the Bible (English translation of Les Principes du catholicisme social en face de l'Ecriture sainte by Jean-Samuel Ouvret), 1928
  • Conservatism and Wealth: A Radical Indictment (with Roger Chance), 1929
  • The Questing Beast: An Autobiography, 1932
  • Unborn Son: political commentary, 1933
  • The Coming of Aïssa: being the life of Aïssa ben Yusuf of El Naseerta, otherwise known as Jesus of Nazareth, 1935
  • Oasis: political and social comment, 1936
Source: Who Was Who.[4]

Arms edit

Coat of arms of Oliver Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
 
 
Coronet
A Coronet of an Earl
Crest
A Cockatrice sejant wings addorsed Argent combed wattled and beaked Or gorged with a Crown Vallary lined and reflexed over the back Gold and charged on the shoulder with a Rose Gules barbed and seeded proper
Escutcheon
Argent on a Saltire Sable a Quatrefoil Or
Supporters
On either side a White Owl proper, that on the sinister holding in the beak a Sprig of Broom also proper
Motto
Per Deum Meum Transilio Murum (With the help of my God I leap over the wall)

Notes edit

  1. ^ Williamson, Philip, and Baldwin, Edward, Baldwin Papers: A Conservative Statesman, 1908-1947 (2004), p. 35 [1]
  2. ^ "His parents hastened back to their home at St Ermin's Mansions - the name seems cavernous with furnishings - and [Oliver] was born, feet first, just after midnight on 1 March 1899." Walker, Christopher J, Oliver Baldwin: A Life of Dissent (2003), p. 5
  3. ^ Williamson, Philip, and Baldwin, Edward, Baldwin Papers: A Conservative Statesman, 1908-1947 (2004), p.10 [2]
  4. ^ a b "Baldwin of Bewdley", Who Was Who, Oxford University Press, 2014, retrieved 4 August 2015 (subscription required)
  5. ^ Williamson, Philip, and Baldwin, Edward, Baldwin Papers: A Conservative Statesman, 1908-1947 (2004), p.19 [3]
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h Lycett, Andrew, ""An average MP; Oliver Baldwin: a life of dissent, by Christopher J Walker", New Statesman, London. 29 March 2004.
  7. ^ Lyttelton and Hart-Davis, letter of 13 August 1958, pp. 115–116
  8. ^ Who's Who, 1938, page 726
  9. ^ Walker, p. 22
  10. ^ "No. 30210". The London Gazette (5th supplement). 30 July 1917. p. 7783.
  11. ^ Walker, p. 31
  12. ^ a b c d e "Obituary – Earl Baldwin of Bewdley", The Times, London. 12 August 1958. p. 8
  13. ^ "No. 31349". The London Gazette (Supplement). 20 May 1919. p. 6321.
  14. ^ "No. 32135". The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 23 November 1920. p. 15566.
  15. ^ Walker, p. 69
  16. ^ Walker, p. 75
  17. ^ a b c Williamson, Philip, and Baldwin, Edward, Baldwin Papers: A Conservative Statesman, 1908-1947 (2004), p.11 [4]
  18. ^ "[Stanley] Baldwin's letters to Oliver...are among his most humane: tolerant, open-hearted, merry and affectionate." cf Williamson, Philip, and Baldwin, Edward, Baldwin Papers: A Conservative Statesman, 1908-1947 (2004), p.11 [5]
  19. ^ "Westminster's unhappy families". BBC News. 26 December 2016.
  20. ^ a b Walker, pp. 150–151
  21. ^ "The General Election", The Times, 28 October 1931, p. 6
  22. ^ "The General Election", The Times, 15 November 1935, p. 8
  23. ^ Boyle kept his spirits up by sending letters and parcels; when it proved difficult to send these by conventional means, Earl Baldwin used his government contacts to assist Boyle. cf Williamson, Philip, and Baldwin, Edward, Baldwin Papers: A Conservative Statesman, 1908-1947 (2004), p.10 [6]
  24. ^ "News in Brief", The Times, 13 September 1945, p. 2
  25. ^ "Governor of Leeward Islands", The Times, 9 February 1948, p. 3
  26. ^ a b c d Bloch, Michael (2015). Closet Queens. Little, Brown. p. 233. ISBN 978-1408704127.
  27. ^ Walker, p. 88
  28. ^ Walker, p. 99
  29. ^ Walker, pp. 99–103
  30. ^ Walker, p. 108
  31. ^ Salutations mattered a great deal to Baldwin Snr: "Baldwin was punctilious about the forms of address in his letters. He used several different salutations and valedictions, in order to indicate precisely the relationship he had with, or wished to suggest towards, his correspondent. An individual he gradually came to know, or wanted to draw closer, might pass beyond the formal ‘Dear [surname]...Yours sincerely, Stanley Baldwin’ to ‘My Dear [surname]...Yours ever, S.B.’, and then on to the closer ‘Dear [forename]...Yours S.B.’." cf Williamson, Philip, and Baldwin, Edward, Baldwin Papers: A Conservative Statesman, 1908-1947 (2004), pp.13-14 [7][8]

Sources edit

External links edit

  • Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
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oliver, baldwin, earl, baldwin, bewdley, oliver, ridsdale, baldwin, earl, baldwin, bewdley, march, 1899, august, 1958, known, viscount, corvedale, from, 1937, 1947, british, socialist, politician, career, political, odds, with, father, conservative, prime, min. Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley 1 March 1899 10 August 1958 known as Viscount Corvedale from 1937 to 1947 was a British socialist politician who had a career at political odds with his father the Conservative prime minister Stanley Baldwin The Right HonourableThe Earl Baldwin of BewdleyMember of the House of LordsLord TemporalIn office 14 December 1947 10 August 1958Hereditary PeeragePreceded byThe 1st Earl Baldwin of BewdleySucceeded byThe 3rd Earl Baldwin of BewdleyMember of Parliament for PaisleyIn office 5 July 1945 14 December 1947Preceded byJoseph MaclaySucceeded byDouglas JohnstonMember of Parliament for DudleyIn office 30 May 1929 7 October 1931Preceded byCyril Edward LloydSucceeded byDudley Jack Barnato JoelPersonal detailsBorn 1899 03 01 1 March 1899St Ermin s Mansions London EnglandDied10 August 1958 1958 08 10 aged 59 Mile End London EnglandPolitical partyLabourDomestic partnerJohn BoyleParentsStanley Baldwin Lucy RidsdaleEducated at Eton which he hated Baldwin left as soon as he could After serving in the army during the First World War he undertook various jobs including a brief appointment as an officer in the Armenian army and wrote journalism and books on a range of topics He served two terms as a Labour Member of Parliament between 1929 and 1947 Baldwin never achieved ministerial office in Britain His last post was as Governor of the Leeward Islands from 1948 to 1950 Contents 1 Early years 2 Career 2 1 Post war and 1920s 2 2 Later years 2 2 1 Governor of the Leeward Islands 1948 1950 3 Personal life 4 Death 5 Books 6 Arms 7 Notes 8 Sources 9 External linksEarly years editBaldwin was born at his parents London home in St Ermin s Mansions St James s Park London 1 2 and spent his early childhood in Worcestershire first at Dunley Hall near Stourport Worcestershire and then at Astley Hall near Stourport after the Baldwin family moved there in 1902 3 Baldwin was one of six surviving children and the elder surviving son of the businessman Stanley Baldwin and his wife Lucy nee Ridsdale 4 The family unit was emotionally close and Baldwin s parents loving and supportive though his father was like many parents of that class at that time not closely involved in his children s lives 5 Baldwin senior was elected a Conservative MP in 1908 and rose within fifteen years to become prime minister He sent his son to Eton College where the boy failed to fit in He hated what he saw as the school s snobbery and cruelty 6 and to his teachers he appeared to be full of silliness egotism un divine discontent contempt for others and of course for authority discipline tradition etc 7 His Who s Who entry states that he was educated in football at Eton in other things beginning to learn 8 He was keen to leave school and join the army to fight in the First World War 9 and was commissioned from his officer cadet unit as a second lieutenant in the Special Reserve of the Irish Guards on 27 June 1917 10 He did not join the fighting in France until June 1918 11 but then distinguished himself by his bravery 12 He was promoted to lieutenant on 27 December 1918 13 and relinquished his commission on 1 April 1920 14 His war service strengthened his idealism and increasingly socialist views 6 Career editPost war and 1920s edit After the war Baldwin served briefly as British Vice Consul in Boulogne and then travelled in north Africa He refused to be supported by his father and earned a living as a journalist and travel writer A chance meeting in Alexandria led to an appointment as an infantry instructor in the newly independent Armenia but soon after he took up the post in 1920 the democratic government collapsed and Baldwin was imprisoned by Bolshevik backed revolutionaries He was freed two months later when democracy was restored but en route back to Britain he was arrested by the Turkish authorities accused of spying for Soviet Russia 15 He was held for five months in grim conditions with execution a constant threat 16 He later wrote a book about his experiences called Six Prisons and Two Revolutions 12 After his release Baldwin returned to Britain nbsp Baldwin s father Stanley in the 1920sIn 1923 around this time the leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister Bonar Law retired due to ill health Baldwin s father Stanley already Chancellor of the Exchequer became prime minister in Law s place The younger Baldwin by now considered himself a committed socialist and shortly after his father s elevation he publicly declared his political beliefs and broke off contact with his parents much to their distress 17 At the 1924 general election Baldwin contested the seat of Dudley for the Labour Party attracting press comment He was unsuccessful but Baldwin Snr who had been out of power since the 1923 general election returned to power for a second term as prime minister 12 Shortly afterwards the breach between parents and son was patched up Father and son remained on the warmest personal terms assisted by agreement to avoid political discussions and in politics Baldwin refrained from personally attacking his father 18 6 At the 1929 election Baldwin won Dudley and served as a backbench supporter of Ramsay MacDonald s Labour government His father had lost the election but remained an MP and became Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons unusually father and son now sat facing each other across the House of Commons Baldwin Snr initially found it difficult to bear telling one of his daughters that he nearly died when he first saw Oliver sitting on the opposite benches to himself in the House of Commons but matters were smoothed over by a letter Baldwin wrote to console his father Wherever I have gone on my political rounds during the past six years I have never heard any of our supporters speak other than in a kindly way of your personal self To you who have generally been victorious the results may disappoint you but take it from one who until the other day has always been on the losing side always in the minority and generally alone that victory or defeat are both flatterers and as such are of no serious consequence 17 19 Like other young left wing Labour MPs Baldwin was critical of MacDonald s insistence on strict financial management and refusal to launch large Keynesian public works programmes 20 Early in 1931 Baldwin resigned from the Labour Party and was briefly associated with Oswald Mosley s New Party but soon repudiated Mosley and rejoined Labour 20 When MacDonald formed the National Government Stanley Baldwin and the Conservatives joined it most Labour members including Oliver Baldwin did not The 1931 general election resulted in a landslide win for the National Government and a disaster for Labour Baldwin was among the casualties defeated by a Conservative candidate Sir Park Goff who won by 19 991 votes to Baldwin s 10 837 at Chatham 21 Baldwin returned to journalism In Walker s view he was better known as a journalist than as a politician writing anti fascist articles in the usually pro appeasement Rothermere press during the 1930s 6 He also wrote what the reviewer Andrew Lycett calls a curious novel called The Coming of Aissa which emphasised the socialistic leanings of Jesus within an agnostic Asian neoplatonic context 6 Later years edit Baldwin fought Paisley at the 1935 election failing to be elected by 389 votes behind the Liberal candidate 22 In 1937 Stanley Baldwin retired from politics and was created Earl Baldwin of Bewdley As a result Oliver Baldwin acquired the courtesy title Viscount Corvedale which did not entail membership of the House of Lords In 1939 he rejoined the army becoming a major in the Intelligence Corps and serving in the Near East and north Africa 23 12 At the 1945 general election when Labour returned to power under Clement Attlee Corvedale was elected for Paisley with a majority of 10 330 24 The Attlee government lacked representation in the House of Lords which was dominated by Conservative peers In 1947 Corvedale accepted the prime minister s offer of a peerage but before he could take his seat his father died and Corvedale was automatically elevated as the second Earl Baldwin Lycett comments that had it not been for the first earl s death Baldwin father and son would uniquely have sat opposite each other in both houses of parliament 6 Governor of the Leeward Islands 1948 1950 edit In February 1948 Baldwin was appointed Governor and Commander in Chief of the Leeward Islands a British colonial territory in the Caribbean arriving there a month later 25 His male life partner Boyle accompanied him to the disapproval of some of the British establishment in Antigua There were rumours of strange and unnatural happenings at Government House that were reinforced by complaints from naval captains whose crews had been commandeered by the governor for nude bathing sessions 26 Partly for this reason and partly because Baldwin made no secret of his continuing socialist views or his desire for multiracial inclusiveness he was recalled in 1950 6 Personal life editIn 1922 he was briefly engaged to Dorothea Doreen Arbuthnot the daughter of a political ally of his father 27 Coming to terms with the fact that he was homosexual Baldwin broke off the engagement and settled with John Johnnie Parke Boyle 30 July 1893 24 February 1969 son of Major Charles Boyle of Great Milton Oxfordshire 26 28 Described in The New Statesman as a charming ne er do well 6 Boyle who was six years older than Baldwin became his lifelong partner 29 Boyle and Baldwin set up home together in a farm in Oxfordshire owned by Boyle s brother in law Lord Macclesfield and living in what the biographer Christopher J Walker describes as gentle amicable animal loving primitive homosexual socialism 30 Though the two had to be careful and corresponded in code they employed good looking male staff and held weekend parties attended by vetted friends such as Harold Nicolson and Beverley Nichols 26 Baldwin s family appears to have been accepting of the situation apart from his father s first cousin Rudyard Kipling with whom Baldwin had been close but who broke all contact on hearing of Baldwin s beastliness 26 Baldwin Snr though perhaps not Mrs Baldwin probably recognised Baldwin and Boyle were a couple Unusually for the period both parents accepted Boyle s place in Baldwin s life The elder Baldwin s letters to Boyle are addressed to My Dear Johnny a mark of favour 31 while Boyle won Mrs Baldwin over by showing her in effect the attentions of a dutiful son in law During Baldwin Snr s time in office the two elders would occasionally travel from the prime ministerial country retreat of Chequers to visit their son and his partner at their Oxfordshire farmhouse 17 Death edit nbsp Baldwin s tombstone on a hilltop on the island of Antigua Baldwin died in Mile End Hospital London in 1958 He was unmarried and was succeeded in the earldom and viscountcy by his younger brother Arthur 12 His ashes are interred on a hilltop on the island of Antigua The stone inscription reads Here lie the ashes of Oliver Ridsdale Second Earl Baldwin of Bewdley Born March 1899 Died August 1958 Governor Commander in Chief in and over the Leeward Islands and Vice Admiral of the same 1948 1950 He loved the people of these islands RIP citation needed Books editKonyetz novel published under the pen name Martin Hussingtree 1924 Six Prisons and Two Revolutions memoirs 1924 Socialism and the Bible English translation of Les Principes du catholicisme social en face de l Ecriture sainte by Jean Samuel Ouvret 1928 Conservatism and Wealth A Radical Indictment with Roger Chance 1929 The Questing Beast An Autobiography 1932 Unborn Son political commentary 1933 The Coming of Aissa being the life of Aissa ben Yusuf of El Naseerta otherwise known as Jesus of Nazareth 1935 Oasis political and social comment 1936Source Who Was Who 4 Arms editCoat of arms of Oliver Baldwin 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley nbsp nbsp Coronet A Coronet of an Earl Crest A Cockatrice sejant wings addorsed Argent combed wattled and beaked Or gorged with a Crown Vallary lined and reflexed over the back Gold and charged on the shoulder with a Rose Gules barbed and seeded proper Escutcheon Argent on a Saltire Sable a Quatrefoil Or Supporters On either side a White Owl proper that on the sinister holding in the beak a Sprig of Broom also proper Motto Per Deum Meum Transilio Murum With the help of my God I leap over the wall Notes edit Williamson Philip and Baldwin Edward Baldwin Papers A Conservative Statesman 1908 1947 2004 p 35 1 His parents hastened back to their home at St Ermin s Mansions the name seems cavernous with furnishings and Oliver was born feet first just after midnight on 1 March 1899 Walker Christopher J Oliver Baldwin A Life of Dissent 2003 p 5 Williamson Philip and Baldwin Edward Baldwin Papers A Conservative Statesman 1908 1947 2004 p 10 2 a b Baldwin of Bewdley Who Was Who Oxford University Press 2014 retrieved 4 August 2015 subscription required Williamson Philip and Baldwin Edward Baldwin Papers A Conservative Statesman 1908 1947 2004 p 19 3 a b c d e f g h Lycett Andrew An average MP Oliver Baldwin a life of dissent by Christopher J Walker New Statesman London 29 March 2004 Lyttelton and Hart Davis letter of 13 August 1958 pp 115 116 Who s Who 1938 page 726 Walker p 22 No 30210 The London Gazette 5th supplement 30 July 1917 p 7783 Walker p 31 a b c d e Obituary Earl Baldwin of Bewdley The Times London 12 August 1958 p 8 No 31349 The London Gazette Supplement 20 May 1919 p 6321 No 32135 The London Gazette 2nd supplement 23 November 1920 p 15566 Walker p 69 Walker p 75 a b c Williamson Philip and Baldwin Edward Baldwin Papers A Conservative Statesman 1908 1947 2004 p 11 4 Stanley Baldwin s letters to Oliver are among his most humane tolerant open hearted merry and affectionate cf Williamson Philip and Baldwin Edward Baldwin Papers A Conservative Statesman 1908 1947 2004 p 11 5 Westminster s unhappy families BBC News 26 December 2016 a b Walker pp 150 151 The General Election The Times 28 October 1931 p 6 The General Election The Times 15 November 1935 p 8 Boyle kept his spirits up by sending letters and parcels when it proved difficult to send these by conventional means Earl Baldwin used his government contacts to assist Boyle cf Williamson Philip and Baldwin Edward Baldwin Papers A Conservative Statesman 1908 1947 2004 p 10 6 News in Brief The Times 13 September 1945 p 2 Governor of Leeward Islands The Times 9 February 1948 p 3 a b c d Bloch Michael 2015 Closet Queens Little Brown p 233 ISBN 978 1408704127 Walker p 88 Walker p 99 Walker pp 99 103 Walker p 108 Salutations mattered a great deal to Baldwin Snr Baldwin was punctilious about the forms of address in his letters He used several different salutations and valedictions in order to indicate precisely the relationship he had with or wished to suggest towards his correspondent An individual he gradually came to know or wanted to draw closer might pass beyond the formal Dear surname Yours sincerely Stanley Baldwin to My Dear surname Yours ever S B and then on to the closer Dear forename Yours S B cf Williamson Philip and Baldwin Edward Baldwin Papers A Conservative Statesman 1908 1947 2004 pp 13 14 7 8 Sources editLyttleton George Rupert Hart Davis 1981 Lyttelton Hart Davis Letters Volume 3 London John Murray ISBN 978 0 7195 3770 7 Walker Christopher J 2003 Oliver Baldwin A Life of Dissent London Arcadia ISBN 978 1 900850 86 5 External links editHansard 1803 2005 contributions in Parliament by the Earl Baldwin of BewdleyGovernment officesPreceded byW R Macnie acting Governor of the Leeward Islands1948 1950 Succeeded bySir Kenneth BlackburneParliament of the United KingdomPreceded byCyril Lloyd Member of Parliament for Dudley1929 1931 Succeeded byDudley JoelPreceded byJoseph Maclay Member of Parliament for Paisley1945 1947 Succeeded byDouglas JohnstonPeerage of the United KingdomPreceded byStanley Baldwin Earl Baldwin of Bewdley1947 1958 Member of the House of Lords 1947 Succeeded byArthur Baldwin Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Oliver Baldwin 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley amp oldid 1207081853, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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