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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, serving as 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. He joined the family iron and steel making business and entered the House of Commons in 1908 as the member for Bewdley, succeeding his father Alfred. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stanley Baldwin has received more than 2,960,827 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Stanley Baldwin is the 2,196th most popular politician (up from 2,699th in 2019), the 502nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 645th in 2019) and the 93rd 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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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Stanley Baldwin ranks 2,196 out of 15,577Before him are Emperor Daizong of Tang, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Afonso II of Portugal, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, and Herod Agrippa II. After him are Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, Louis Blanc, Yaropolk I of Kiev, Aurelius Victor, Halimah Yacob, and Theuderic III.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Stanley Baldwin ranks 19Before him are Natsume Sōseki, Pierre Bonnard, Prince Maximilian of Baden, Percy Fawcett, Enrique Granados, and Johannes Fibiger. After him are Laura Ingalls Wilder, Walther Rathenau, Irving Fisher, Władysław Reymont, Hector Guimard, and Margaret Brown. Among people deceased in 1947, Stanley Baldwin ranks 29Before him are Pierre Bonnard, Karl Mannheim, Nicholas Roerich, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Victor Lustig, and Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque. After him are G. H. Hardy, Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Irving Fisher, Luigi Russolo, Bugsy Siegel, and Alexander Löhr.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Stanley Baldwin ranks 502 out of 7,765Before him are Ronnie Wood (1947), Albert Finney (1936), John Barry (1933), James Hutton (1726), Geoffrey of Monmouth (1090), and William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779). After him are Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (1771), Frank Williams (1942), George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859), George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592), Annie Besant (1847), and Erasmus Darwin (1731).

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