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Stanley Baldwin

1867 - 1947

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Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (3 August 1867 – 14 December 1947) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who dominated the government of the United Kingdom between the world wars. He was prime minister on three occasions, from May 1923 to January 1924, from November 1924 to June 1929, and from June 1935 to May 1937. Born to a prosperous family in Bewdley, Worcestershire, Baldwin was educated at Hawtreys, Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stanley Baldwin has received more than 3,215,060 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Stanley Baldwin is the 2,441st most popular politician (down from 2,189th in 2019), the 529th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 502nd in 2019) and the 92nd most popular British Politician.

Stanley Baldwin was the British Prime Minister from 1924-1929 and 1935-1937. He is most famous for his leadership during the Great Depression.

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  • 66

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Stanley Baldwin ranks 2,441 out of 19,576. Before him are John of Brienne, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Sogdianus of Persia, Gennady Yanayev, Pierre Trudeau, and Mentuhotep I. After him are Bilgä Qaǧan, Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, Henry II, Count of Champagne, Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, François Grimaldi, and La Malinche.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Stanley Baldwin ranks 21. Before him are Walther Rathenau, Maxime Weygand, Johannes Fibiger, Władysław Reymont, Pierre Bonnard, and Enrique Granados. After him are Laura Ingalls Wilder, Ignacy Mościcki, Irving Fisher, Umberto Giordano, Hector Guimard, and Sakichi Toyoda. Among people deceased in 1947, Stanley Baldwin ranks 30. Before him are Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Pierre Bonnard, Nicholas Roerich, Black Dahlia, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted. After him are Victor Lustig, Alexander Löhr, Qazi Muhammad, Irving Fisher, Pierre Janet, and Bugsy Siegel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Stanley Baldwin ranks 529 out of 8,785. Before him are William Kidd (1645), Robert Edwards (1925), Mary Anning (1799), Gerard Butler (1969), Albert Finney (1936), and Ronnie Wood (1947). After him are William Lassell (1799), Eadweard Muybridge (1830), Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844), Tom Wilkinson (1948), Henry Every (1659), and James Hutton (1726).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Stanley Baldwin ranks 92. Before him are James I of Scotland (1394), James IV of Scotland (1473), Gordon Brown (1951), Henry the Young King (1155), William Wilberforce (1759), and Ælla of Northumbria (800). After him are Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844), George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859), David II of Scotland (1324), Eadwig (940), Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (1771), and Alec Douglas-Home (1903).

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