1. Baldwin is our only PM to have served under three monarchs: George V, Edward VIII and George VI.
2. When Andrew Bonar Law retired through ill health as PM in 1923, Baldwin succeeded him then held an election when he lost his majority.
3. Baldwin was re-elected in 1924 when Ramsay MacDonald’s minority Labour government fell.
4. He lost the 1929 election to Macdonald again but won his last term from 1935 to 1937 when he retired.
5. His win in 1935 was the last time a UK party gained more than 50 per cent of the popular vote.
6. By a strange coincidence, Stanley Baldwin’s mother’s maiden name had been MacDonald.
7. Stanley Baldwin was a first cousin of Rudyard Kipling, whose mother was Baldwin’s aunt on his mother’s side.
8. He married Lucy Ridsdale in 1892 after they had met on a cricket field. She was a member of the White Heather Club, the first women’s cricket club.
9. Lucy Ridsdale was also the name of a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic.
10. “I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason.” (Stanley Baldwin).
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