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{{Short description|British hereditary peer (1938–2021)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name             = The Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
| office1          = [[Member of the House of Lords]]
| status1          = [[Lords Temporal|Lord Temporal]]
| term_label1      = as a hereditary peer
| term_start1      = 5 July 1976
| term_end1        = 11 November 1999
| predecessor1     = [[Arthur Baldwin, 3rd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley|The 3rd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley]]
| successor1       = [[House of Lords Act 1999|Seat abolished]]
| term_label2      = as an [[List of excepted hereditary peers|elected hereditary peer]]
| term_start2      = 11 November 1999
| term_end2        = 9 May 2018 <ref>Retired under Section 1 of the [[House of Lords Reform Act 2014]].</ref>
| 1blankname2      = [[List of excepted hereditary peers|Election]]
| 1namedata2       = 1999
| predecessor2     = [[House of Lords Act 1999|Seat established]]
| successor2       = [[Charles Courtenay, 19th Earl of Devon|The 19th Earl of Devon]]
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1938|1|3|df=yes}}
| birth_place      = [[Martley]], [[Worcestershire]], England
| death_date       = {{death date and age|2021|6|16|1938|1|3|df=yes}}
| death_place      =
| party            = [[Crossbench]]
| spouse           = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Sarah James|1970|2001|end=d}}
* {{marriage|Lydia Segrave|2015}}
}}
| children         = 3
| alma_mater       = [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]
| relations        = [[Stanley Baldwin]] (grandfather)<br>[[Charles Alexander Tomes]] (grandfather)
}}
'''Edward Alfred Alexander Baldwin, 4th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley''' (3 January 1938 – 16 June 2021) was a British educator, [[hereditary peer]], and [[Crossbench]] member of the [[House of Lords]].<ref name=Lords>[https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/lords/retired-lords/ List of retired members of the House of Lords]</ref>
==Early life and education==
Baldwin was born on 3 January 1938.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=H0c5GbBWJg6Q2skiFlkb0g&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=23 June 2021|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Baldwin of Bewdley, 4th Earl, (Edward Alfred Alexander Baldwin) (born 3 Jan. 1938)|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-6285|access-date=2021-07-01|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|date=2007 |language=en|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u6285|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 }}</ref> He was the only child of [[Arthur Baldwin, 3rd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley]] and the former Joan Elspeth Tomes (1901–1980).<ref name=":0" /><ref name="1936Wedding">{{cite news |title=JOAN TOMES WED TO PREMIER'S SON; Daughter of New York Couple Bride of Arthur Baldwin in London. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/08/26/88690727.pdf |access-date=9 August 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=26 August 1936}}</ref> His paternal grandparents were [[Lucy Baldwin]] and [[Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley]], three-time [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]].<ref name="Tomes2015">{{cite book |last1=Tomes |first1=James Steel |title=Serendipity: The Genealogy of Tomes, Steel, Raymaley and Schaeffer, Witmeyer and Burger |date=2015 |publisher=AuthorHouse |isbn=9781496938411 |page=38 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VLIIDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA38 |access-date=9 August 2019 |language=en}}</ref>  His maternal grandparents were Harriot ([[née]] Hancock) Tomes and [[Charles Alexander Tomes]], an American-born merchant in the [[Far East]] with [[Shewan, Tomes & Co.]]<ref name="1936Engagement">{{cite news |title=WYNDHAM BALDWIN TO WED; Son of Prime Minister Will Marry Joan E. Tomes, an American. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/07/29/93525851.pdf |access-date=9 August 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=29 July 1936}}</ref>
Baldwin was educated at [[Eton College]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]],<ref name=":0" /> where he studied modern languages and law.
==Career==
Before entering Trinity College, Baldwin served from 1956 until 1958 as a [[second lieutenant]] in the [[Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom)|Intelligence Corps]]. Between 1970 and 1987, he served in a variety of education positions, initially as a school teacher (teaching German and French) and latterly as Area Education Officer for [[Oxfordshire]] from 1980 to 1987.<ref>[https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/earl-baldwin-of-bewdley/3446 House of Lords profile]</ref>
On the death of his father in 1976, Baldwin became a member of the [[House of Lords]] and was one of the ninety elected [[hereditary peer]]s who remained after the passing of the [[House of Lords Act 1999]]. From 1990 to 1998, he was Chairman of the British Acupuncture Accreditation Board.<ref name=":0" />
While in the House of Lords, he was Joint Chairman of Parliamentary Group for Alternative and Complementary Medicine from 1992 to 2002. Baldwin was also a member of the Select Committee of Inquiry into Complementary and Alternative Medicine in 2000. From 2005 to 2010, he was Joint Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group Against Fluoridation. In addition, Baldwin was Secretary of the Associate Parliamentary Food and Health Forum.<ref name=":0" />
Baldwin sat as a [[crossbencher]] until retiring under the [[House of Lords Reform Act 2014]] in May 2018.<ref name="Lords" />
Baldwin spent much time trying to clear the name of his grandfather, Stanley Baldwin, whose character, motivation and actions as prime minister were questioned after the outbreak of [[World War II]]. He was particularly unhappy with the film ''[[The King's Speech]]'' due to its factual distortions and portrayal of his grandfather as a dithering fool who misunderstood Hitler's intentions.<ref>{{Cite news|date=June 24, 2021|title=The 4th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley Obituary|work=The Times}}</ref>
==Personal life and death==
In 1970, Baldwin married Sarah MacMurray,<ref name=":0" /> the eldest daughter of Evan James of Upwood Park in [[Abingdon-on-Thames|Abingdon]], [[County of Berkshire]].{{citation needed|date=October 2020}} They lived at Manor Farm House in [[Upper Wolvercote]], [[Oxford]], and were the parents of three sons:{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}
* Benedict Alexander Stanley Baldwin, 5th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (born 28 December 1973)
* [[The Honourable|Hon.]] James Conrad Baldwin (born 13 March 1976)
* Hon. Mark Thomas Maitland Baldwin (born 24 July 1980){{citation needed|date=October 2020}}
Sarah died in 2001.<ref name=":0" /> In 2015, Baldwin married sculptor Lydia Segrave, the widow of economist [[Ian Little (economist)|Ian Little]].<ref name=":0" />
Baldwin was a member of the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]]. He lived in [[Cumnor Hill]], near [[Oxford]].<ref name=":0" />
Lord Baldwin died on 16 June 2021, aged 83.  He was succeeded in the earldom and viscountcy by his eldest son, Benedict.<ref>{{cite hansard |jurisdiction=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]] |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2021-06-17/debates/E935D1E4-068E-4D05-9538-160110B3C453/DeathOfAMemberEarlBaldwinOfBewdley |title=Death of a Member: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley |house=[[House of Lords]] |date=16 June 2021 |column= |speaker=[[John McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith|Lord McFall of Alcluith]] |position=[[Lord Speaker]] }}</ref>
==Works==
* {{cite book| title=Baldwin Papers: A Conservative Statesman, 1908-1947|editor= Philip Williamson |editor2=Edward Baldwin| year= 2004| isbn=978-0-521-58080-9 | publisher=[[University of Durham]] }}
==Arms==
{{Infobox COA wide
|image = [[File:Coronet of a British Earl.svg|150px|center]]<br>[[File:Arms of Baldwin, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley.svg|200px|center]]
|crest = A Cockatrice sejant wings addorsed Argent combed wattled and beaked Or gorged with a Crown Vallary lined and reflexed over the back Gold and charged on the shoulder with a Rose Gules barbed and seeded proper
|coronet = A [[Coronet|Coronet of an Earl]]
|escutcheon = Argent on a Saltire Sable a Quatrefoil Or
|supporters = On either side a White Owl proper, that on the sinister holding in the beak a Sprig of Broom also proper
|motto = Per Deum Meum Transilio Murum (With the help of my God I leap over the wall)
}}
==References==
{{Reflist|2}}
==External links==
* {{Hansard-contribs | mr-edward-baldwin | the Earl Baldwin of Bewdley  }}
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