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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Arthur Windham Baldwin, 3rd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (22 March 1904 – 5 July 1976) was a British businessman, RAF officer, and author. His books included a combative defence of the posthumous reputation of his father, Stanley Baldwin, the former prime minister of the UK, in which he severely criticised several leading historians of the time.

Early life

Baldwin was the younger son of Stanley Baldwin, later 1st Earl of Baldwin of Bewdley, and his wife, Lucy, Шаблон:Née. He was known to his family and friends by the nickname "Bloggs".[1]

He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[2]

Career

In the inter-war years Baldwin was a director of several companies, including the Round Oak Steel Works, Redpath, Brown, and the Great Western Railway,[3] and between 1938 and 1974 he was a director of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II.[4] Despising patronage, he successfully set out to gain a commission through the ranks.[5]

Baldwin published three books in the 1950s and 60s. The first was a biography of his father, written as a result of his strong feeling that the official biography by G. M. Young did not do Stanley Baldwin justice.Шаблон:Refn Baldwin strongly criticised not only Young, but other historians, including John Wheeler-Bennett, D. C. Somervell and Sir Lewis Namier for, in his view, misjudging the former prime minister.[6] His second book, The Macdonald Sisters was a study of the four daughters of the Rev G. B. Macdonald: Alice married John Lockwood Kipling (Rudyard Kipling's parents); Georgiana married Edward Burne-Jones; Agnes married Edward Poynter; and Louisa married Alfred Baldwin (Stanley Baldwin's parents, thus Windham's grandparents).[4] In 1967 he published a memoir of his wartime experiences. The reviewer in The Times, commented, "He tells it all with amusement and skill … the atmosphere of the RAF seeps unmistakably through."[5]

Peerage

On 10 August 1958, on the death of the second earl, his elder brother, Oliver, Baldwin succeeded to the United Kingdom titles of Earl Baldwin of Bewdley and Viscount Corvedale.[4] He spoke in the House of Lords from time to time, mostly on the subjects of transport and industry.[7]

Personal life

On 25 August 1936, Baldwin married Joan Elspeth Tomes, daughter of Charles Alexander Tomes, merchant in the Far East with Shewan, Tomes & Co.[8][9] They had one child:[10]

The 3rd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley died on 5 July 1976, aged 72.[11] The Countess Baldwin of Bewdley died in 1980.[10]

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  1. Neville, p. 33
  2. "Baldwin of Bewdley", Who Was Who, Oxford University Press, April 2014, retrieved 5 August 2015 Шаблон:Subscription required
  3. "New G.W.R. Director", The Times, 13 February 1937, p. 19,
  4. 4,0 4,1 4,2 Obituary, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, The Times, 8 July 1976, p. 18
  5. 5,0 5,1 Buckley, L. R. "Reaching for the skies", The Times, 7 September 1967, p. 7
  6. "Mr. Baldwin Cross-Examines His Guilty Men", The Times, 19 January 1956, p. 11
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  10. 10,0 10,1 10,2 Шаблон:Cite web
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