Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stanley first Earl Baldwin
Standard Name: Baldwin, Stanley,,, first Earl
Titled: Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
Connections
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death | Louisa Baldwin | LB
died quietly of old age after many years as an invalid; her son
was Prime Minister at the time. Taylor, Ina. Victorian Sisters. Adler and Adler, 1987. 181 Middlemas, Keith, and John Barnes. Baldwin: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1969. 301-2 |
Education | Elizabeth Taylor | Her first school, where she went at the age of six, was a little private establishment called Leopold House, which gave a grounding in English and maths and team games. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009. 12-13 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Angela Thirkell | Stanley Baldwin
, later Prime Minister, and the poet and story-writer Rudyard Kipling
, were both cousins of AT
's mother. Kipling entered fully into the playing of a long-running English Civil War game with... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rudyard Kipling | One of Alice's sisters became a novelist and miscellaneous writer under her married name of Louisa Baldwin
; her husband was a wealthy manufacturer and their son Stanley Baldwin
later became Prime Minister of Britain... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Louisa Baldwin | LB
's son Stanley
, who later became Prime Minister, was born. Middlemas, Keith, and John Barnes. Baldwin: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1969. 8 |
Friends, Associates | L. M. Montgomery | LMM
was contacted by British prime minister Stanley Baldwin
, who hoped to meet her on his upcoming trip to Canada. Rubio, Mary, and Elizabeth Waterston. Writing a Life: L.M. Montgomery. ECW Press, 1995. 83 |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Cartland | BC
delighted in the company of the famous, beautiful, and charming. She frequented the Embassy Club
, as did Michael Arlen
, Cecil Beaton
, Charlie Chaplin
, and Gloria Vanderbilt
, and she counted... |
Literary responses | Mary Webb | Public praise of Precious Bane from former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
formed a basis for MW
's posthumous fame. Davies, Linda. Mary Webb Country. Palmers Press, 1990. 46 |
Literary responses | Mary Webb | MW
's friend Caradoc Evans
(who called her the greatest living woman novelist and understood how hungry she was for success) recorded her envy of an unnamed countryside woman novelist who was savouring her own... |
Literary responses | Helen Waddell | This book too brought many letters of praise: from Rose Macaulay
, Æ
, Walter de la Mare
, and Stanley Baldwin
. Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable, 1973. 116-17 |
Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | The work has been consistently admired. On its appearance the editor of The Spectator praised it for wonderful mastery of the borderland of the natural and the supernatural, qtd. in Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research, 1996. 159: 256 |
politics | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
caved in and announced in April of the next year that women would be granted the same voting privileges as men. |
politics | Louisa Baldwin | LB
was fascinated by politics and followed the Conservative and patriotic line taken by her husband and son. Shortly before her death it was with enormous pleasure that she watched how her son
succeeded in... |
Textual Features | Christina Stead | When Elvira elopes from her doctor husband, Paul, and from married life in London, it is to live in Paris with a student-poet, Oliver Fenton, who is younger than she and, like most of... |
Textual Features | Storm Jameson | Cousin Honoré is set in Alsace. It begins in December 1918 and moves on to depict the condition of France on the brink of World War II The narrative moves through several other time-periods before... |
Timeline
22 May 1923: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) became Prime...
National or international item
22 May 1923
Stanley Baldwin
(Conservative
) became Prime Minister following Bonar Law
's resignation on grounds of ill health.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
363-4
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
22 January 1924: After the Labour Party's victory in the general...
National or international item
22 January 1924
After the Labour Party
's victory in the general election, party leader James Ramsay MacDonald
formed a minority government and succeeded to Stanley Baldwin
as Prime Minister.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
364
4 November 1924: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) formed the...
National or international item
4 November 1924
Stanley Baldwin
(Conservative
) formed the government in the UK for a second time following the general election of 29 October, succeeding to Labour Party
leader James Ramsay MacDonald
.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
364
1 May 1925: British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was...
National or international item
1 May 1925
British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
was forced by the coal-miners to reverse his decision that, to aid postwar recovery, workers must accept pay reduction.
Hattersley, Roy. “The Legacy of Black Friday”. Guardian Unlimited, 15 July 2006.
6 June 1928: On this Derby Day, a magnificently self-congratulatory...
Writing climate item
6 June 1928
On this Derby Day, a magnificently self-congratulatory dinner for a hundred and fifty distinguished people, all male, was held at Goldsmiths' Hall in London to celebrate the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Holford-Strevens, Leofranc. “They got egg on their faces”. London Review of Books, 20 Nov. 2003, pp. 29-30.
29
Winchester, Simon. The Meaning of Everything. Oxford University Press, 2003.
xv, xix-xxi
7 June 1935: Stanley Baldwin, now of the National Coalition...
National or international item
7 June 1935
Stanley Baldwin
, now of the National Coalition Party
, became Prime Minister for the third time, following MacDonald
's retirement.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
14 November 1935: A general election was held in Britain. The...
National or international item
14 November 1935
A general election was held in Britain. The Conservative Party
polled most votes, and the National Coalition government was returned to power.
Kimber, Richard. “UK General Elections since 1832”. Richard Kimber’s Political Science Resources: British Politics: Election Information.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
288
5 October-1 November 1936: Ellen Wilkinson (nicknamed Red Ellen), Member...
Building item
5 October-1 November 1936
Ellen Wilkinson
(nicknamed Red Ellen), Member of Parliament for the shipbuilding town of Jarrow, led two hundred unemployed men on a Hunger March from their hometown to London.
Mingay, Gordon Edmund. The Transformation of Britain 1830-1939. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986.
279
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
314
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
380
28 May 1937: Neville Chamberlain, as Conservative leader...
National or international item
28 May 1937
Neville Chamberlain
, as Conservative
leader within the coalition government called National, became British Prime Minister following Stanley Baldwin
's resignation.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
52
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491, 382
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