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Edward Baldwin, 4th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley

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The Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
15 November 1977 – 9 May 2018
Hereditary Peerage
Preceded byThe 3rd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
Succeeded byThe Earl of Devon
Personal details
Born (1938-01-03) 3 January 1938 (age 86)
Political partyCrossbench
Spouse
Sarah James
(m. 1970; died 2001)
RelationsStanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (grandfather)
Charles Alexander Tomes (grandfather)
Children3
EducationEton College
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge

Edward Alfred Alexander Baldwin, 4th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (born 3 January 1938) is a British educator, hereditary peer and former Crossbench member of the House of Lords.[citation needed]

Early life

Baldwin was born 3 January 1938. He is the only child of Arthur Baldwin, 3rd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley and the former Joan Elspeth Tomes (1901–1980).[1] His paternal grandparents were Lucy Baldwin and Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, three-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.[2] His maternal grandparents were Harriot (née Hancock) Tomes and Charles Alexander Tomes, an American-born merchant in the Far East with Shewan, Tomes & Co.[3]

Education and career

Baldwin was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied modern languages and law. Before entering Trinity, he served from 1956 until 1958 as a second lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps. Between 1970 and 1987 he served in a variety of education positions, initially as a school teacher (teaching German and French) and latterly as Area Education Officer for Oxfordshire from 1980 to 1987.[4]

On the death of his father in 1976, Baldwin became a member of the House of Lords and was one of the ninety elected hereditary peers who remained after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. While in the House of Lords, he was Joint Chairman of Parliamentary Group for Alternative and Complementary Medicine in 1992 and was a member of the Select Committee of Inquiry into Complementary and Alternative Medicine from 1999 to 2000.[citation needed] He sat as a crossbencher until retiring under the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 in May 2018.[5]

Personal life

In 1970, Baldwin married Sarah James (died 2001), eldest daughter of Evan James, of Upwood Park in Abingdon, County of Berkshire.[citation needed] They lived at Manor Farm House in Upper Wolvercote, Oxford, and were the parents of three sons:[citation needed]

  • Benedict Alexander Stanley Baldwin, Viscount Corvedale (born 28 December 1973), heir apparent to the earldom.
  • Hon. James Conrad Baldwin (born 13 March 1976)
  • Hon. Mark Thomas Maitland Baldwin (born 24 July 1980)[citation needed]

In 2015, Baldwin married sculptor Lydia Segrave, widow of Ian Little (economist).

Works

  • Philip Williamson; Edward Baldwin, eds. (2004). Baldwin Papers: A Conservative Statesman, 1908-1947. University of Durham. ISBN 978-0-521-58080-9.

Arms

Coat of arms of Edward Baldwin, 4th 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)

References

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
1976–present
Incumbent
Parliament of the United Kingdom
New office
Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords
under of the House of Lords Act 1999
1999–2018
Succeeded by