Edward Baldwin, 4th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley His grandfather was Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, three-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. His paternal grandmother was Lucy Baldwin. In 1970 he married Sarah James (died in 2001), with whom he had three sons: Edward Baldwin, 4th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley 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. He was a member of the House from 1976 until his retirement in 2018. Lord Baldwin of Bewdley was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where
Stanley Baldwin were returned with a majority in their own right. In May 1923 Bonar Law was diagnosed with terminal cancer and retired immediately; he died five months later. With many of the party's senior leading figures standing aloof and outside of the government, there were only two candidates to succeed him: Lord Curzon, the Foreign Secretary, and Baldwin. The choice formally fell to King George V acting on the advice of senior ministers and officials. It is not entirely clear what factors proved most crucial, but some Conservative politicians felt that Curzon was unsuitable for the role of Prime Minister because