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 crises in foreign affairs, including the public uproar over the Hoare–Laval Pact, Remilitarization of the Rhineland and the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Baldwin retired in 1937 and was succeeded by Neville Chamberlain. At that time, Baldwin was regarded as a popular and successful Prime Minister, but for the final decade of his life, and for many years afterwards, he was vilified for having presided over high unemployment in the 1930s and as one of the "Guilty Men" who had tried to appease Adolf Hitler and who had – supposedly – not rearmed sufficiently to prepare for the Second