MR. STANLEY BALDWIN

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 112, 28 May 1937, Page 5

MR. STANLEY BALDWIN

• Mr Stanley Baldwin, leader of tbe Cpuservativq Party, was bora on August 3, 1867, in Woreestershire, Educated at Hawow and Trinity CoUege, Cambridge, be entered his fatber'g business, Baldwins, Limited, eontrolUng one of tbe largest iron and steei works in Britain, of wbieb eventuaUy be became thq bead. H§ bad been in busL nesg 20 years before be tried to enter Parliament in 1906. Two years later be was elected for Bewdley, wbieb he bas repregented ever sinee. Mr Baldwin was - a back-bencber in his 50tb year in tbe middie of tbe war, Within six years be bad held bis first Ministerial post, passed througb two great Oabinet offices, and beeame Prime Minister. In Mr Lloyd George's second C/oalitjon Government (be tatu Mr Boxxar Law, Clia'iieellor of tbe qhcqner, appointed b!m bis P#»rliai&e0- 1

tary private secretary, and a few months later be xvas made Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Wben Mr Bonar Law's health first failed Mr. Baldwin was appointed President of tbe Board of Trade, and 18 months later in Mr Law's Cabinet he became Chancellor of tbe Exchequer. As Chancellor be went to Wasbington in connection with tbe British debt to America. When Mr Bonar Law re-

signed in May, 1923, Mr Baldwin was sent for by tbe King and formed a Cabinet. After the downfall of the Labour Cabinet in 1924, he was returned to power at the general election in October, with a majority of 211 over all other parties, and held offiee until 1929. In August, 1931, Mr Baldwin joined thq National Ministry as Lord President of thq Council, a post he gave UP iu 1935 in order to take qver the Prime Ministership for the tbird time, a position he has siuce held continuously,