Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin

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Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1 March 1899 – 10 August 1958), known as Viscount Corvedale from 1937 to 1947, was a British socialist politician who had a career at political odds with his father, the Conservative prime minister Stanley Baldwin.

Educated at Eton, which he hated, Baldwin left as soon as he could. After serving in the army during the First World War he undertook various jobs, including a brief appointment as an officer in the Armenian army, and wrote journalism and books on a range of topics. He served two terms as a Labour Member of Parliament between 1929 and 1947.

Baldwin never achieved ministerial office in Britain. His last post was as Governor of the Leeward Islands, from 1948 to 1950.

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• Fought in the First World War
• Held the office of Acting Vice-Consul at Boulogne in 1919
• Fought in the Armeno-Turkish War in 1920
• Fought in the Armeno-Russian War in 1921, where he was imprisoned by the Bolsheviks and Turks
• A correspondent in 1922 at East Africa
• In 1924 he contested the seat of Dudley
• Wrote the book Six Prisons and Two Revolutions, published 1925
• Wrote the book Socialism and the Bible, published 1928
• Held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) (Labour) for Dudley between 1929 and 1931
• Wrote the book The Questing Beast, published 1932
• Wrote the book Unborn Son, published 1933
• Wrote the book The Coming of Aissa, published 1935
• Wrote the book Oasis, published 1936
• Styled as Viscount Corvedale between 1937 and 1947
• Gained the rank of Major in the service of the Intelligence Corps
• Fought in the Second World War
• Held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Paisley between 1945 and 1947
• Succeeded to the title of 2nd Viscount Corvedale, of Corvedale, co. Shropshire [U.K., 1937] on 14 December 1947
• Succeeded to the title of 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley [U.K., 1937] on 14 December 1947
• Held the office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands between 1948 and 1950

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Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin, 1st Battalion Irish Guards 1899-1958, later 2nd Earl Baldwin
Son of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin and cousin of Rudyard Kipling

Oliver Baldwin, the son of PM Stanley Baldwin, was a man who entered public life as a socialist while his father was a conservative. Having enlisted with the Irish Guards, worked in Armenia, and served tough prison time at the hands of the Bolsheviks and the Turks for seven months, he returned to London to face his father on opposite sides of the Commons. But he was most famous for his journalism, including the stirring piece 'No Fascism for British Youth', written in opposition to the Mosleyite fascists, and his coverage of the Spanish civil war for the Daily Mail.