Edward Baldwin, 4th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
Edward Alfred Alexander Baldwin, 4th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley is a British educator, hereditary peer and former Crossbench member of the House of Lords.Early life
Baldwin was born 3 January 1938. He is the only child of Arthur Baldwin, 3rd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley and the former Joan Elspeth Tomes. His paternal grandparents were Lucy Baldwin and Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, three-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. His maternal grandparents were Harriot Tomes and Charles Alexander Tomes, an American-born merchant in the Far East with Shewan, Tomes & Co.Education and career
Baldwin was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied modern languages and law. Before entering Trinity, he served from 1956 until 1958 as a second lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps. Between 1970 and 1987 he served in a variety of education positions, initially as a school teacher and latterly as Area Education Officer for Oxfordshire from 1980 to 1987.
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 peers who remained after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. While in the House of Lords, he was Joint Chairman of Parliamentary Group for Alternative and Complementary Medicine in 1992 and was a member of the Select Committee of Inquiry into Complementary and Alternative Medicine from 1999 to 2000. He sat as a crossbencher until retiring under the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 in May 2018.Personal life
In 1970 Baldwin married Sarah James, eldest daughter of Evan James, of Upwood Park in Abingdon, County of Berkshire. Together, they lived at Manor Farm House in Upper Wolvercote, Oxford and were the parents of three sons:
