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 conversation with Lord Hinchingbrooke: "Can't we turn Hitler East? Napoleon broke himself against the Russians. Hitler might do the same". Baldwin's years in retirement were quiet. After Chamberlain's death in 1940, Baldwin's perceived part in pre-war appeasement made him an unpopular figure during and after World War II. With a succession of British military failures in 1940, Baldwin started to receive critical letters: "insidious to begin with, then increasingly violent and abusive; then the newspapers; finally the polemicists who, with time and wit at their disposal, could debate at leisure how to wound the deepest." He did not have a