Stanley Baldwin was born on August 3, 1867, in Bewdley, Worcestershire.
Baldwin was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge.
As a young man he served very briefly as a Second Lieutenant in the Artillery Volunteers.
In the 1906 general election he contested Kidderminster but lost amidst the Conservative landslide defeat after the party split on the issue of free trade.
In 1908 he succeeded his father as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bewdley.
During the First World War he became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Conservative leader Andrew Bonar Law and in 1917 he was appointed to the junior ministerial post of Financial Secretary to the Treasury where he sought to encourage voluntary donations by the rich in order the repay the United Kingdom's war debt, notably writing to The Times under the pseudonym 'FST'.
He personally donated one fifth of his quite small fortune.
He served jointly with Sir Hardman Lever, who had been appointed in 1916, but after 1919 Baldwin carried out the duties largely alone. He was appointed to the Privy Council in the 1920 Birthday Honours. In 1921 he was promoted to the Cabinet as President of the Board of Trade.
Baldwin served as Prime Minister from 1923-1929 and again 1935-1937.
Stanley Baldwin died on December 14, 1947.
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