Stanley Baldwin received numerous honours in recognition of his career in politics. These included:
Hereditary Peerage Baldwin was elevated to the House of Lords on 8 June 1937, upon his standing down as Leader of the Conservative Party and from his seat in the House of Commons. He took the title of Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, with the subsidiary title of Viscount Corvedale, of Corvedale in the County of Salop. He sat with the Conservative Party.
Coat of arms
Commonwealth honours
Commonwealth Realms Country Date Decoration Post-nominal letters 189714 December 1947 Justice of the Peace for the County of Worcestershire JP 5 June 192014 December 1947 Member of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council PC 2 August 192714 December 1947 Member of the King's Privy Council for Canada PC 28 May 193714 December 1947 Knight of the Order of the Garter KG
Decorations and medals Country Date Decoration Post-nominal letters 12 May 1937 King George VI Coronation Medal
Foreign honours
Other distinctions
Scholastic
University Degrees
Location Date School Degree Trinity College, Cambridge Third-class honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) in History Mason College Metallurgy
Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector and fellowships Location Date School Position 19231926 University of Edinburgh Rector 19281931 University of Glasgow Rector 19291947 University of St Andrews Chancellor 19301947 University of Cambridge Chancellor 19301947 Girton College, Cambridge Visitor
Honorary Degrees Location Date School Degree 12 June 1923 University of Cambridge 1925 University of Oxford Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) 26 January 1934 University of Liverpool
Memberships and fellowships Country Date Organisation Position 192714 December 1947 Royal Society Fellow (FRS) 1938 Marylebone Cricket Club President
Freedom of the City
15 November 1923: Worcester. 13 March 1925: Leeds. 8 August 1925: Bewdley. 5 October 1925: Glasgow. 14 June 1926: Edinburgh. 1928: Aberystwyth Unknown: London.
Places named after Baldwin
(British Columbia) Mount Stanley Baldwin (1927).
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