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 to commemorate the centenary of Baldwin's birth, in "The Spectator" ("Don't Let's Be Beastly to Baldwin", 14 July 1967) Rab Butler defended Baldwin's moderate policies which, he claimed, helped heal social divisions. In 1969 the first major biography of Baldwin appeared, of over 1,000 pages, written by Keith Middlemas and John Barnes, both Conservatives who wished to defend Baldwin. In 1999, Philip Williamson published a collection of essays on Baldwin which attempted to explain his beliefs and defended his policies as Prime Minister. Williamson asserted that Baldwin had helped create "a moral basis for rearmament in the mid 1930s" that