Stanley Baldwin
(1867-1947), Prime MinisterStanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin
Sitter in 76 portraits
Conservative politician and three times Prime Minister during the 1920s and 1930s. Baldwin's premierships saw two major political events, the General Strike and the Abdication of Edward VIII. In both he was a steadying influence and his popular public broadcasts brought the nation through the crises. After 1939, Baldwin was criticised for supposed failures, notably his doomed attempts to appease Adolf Hitler and apparent reluctance to re-arm Britain in the lead-up to war. However recent scholarship has restored his reputation revealing that a rearmament programme was in place by the time of Baldwin's retirement in 1937.
'Mr. Punch's Fair of British Industries'
by Bernard Partridge
ink and watercolour on artists' board, 1928
NPG D9626
by Tom Cottrell
chromolithographic cigarette card, 1929
NPG D2605
The Die-Hard (Stanley Baldwin; Ramsay MacDonald)
by Bernard Partridge
ink and wash laid down on board, 1930
NPG D9879
by Unknown artist, issued by Godfrey Phillips
colour relief halftone cigarette card, 1932
NPG D2716
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin
issued by Godfrey Phillips
colour relief halftone cigarette card, 1935
NPG D49070
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin
issued by Ardath Tobacco Company Limited
relief halftone cigarette card, 1937
NPG D49100
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin
by Henry Macbeth-Raeburn, after Sir Oswald Birley
mezzotint, 1930, based on a work of 1928
NPG D49394
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