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Enoch Baldwin (5 August 1822 – 1905) was an English iron founder and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885.
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/ref> In 1880, Baldwin was elected Member of Parliament for Bewdley after the sitting MP Charles Harrison was unseated on petition. He held the seat until 1885. He subsequently became JP for Worcestershire and in March 1889 a County Councillor. Baldwin lived at The Mount, Stourport, and died at the age of 82. He was first cousin to
Baldwin married Elizabeth Langford Tildesley daughter of Henry Tildesley on 27 Feb 1849. She died in 1875 and he married secondly on 19 July 1876 to Emily Lydia Driver daughter of Rev. George Frederick Driver a Wesleyan minister.
Stourport-on-Severn
Stourport-on-Severn, often shortened to Stourport, is a town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of North Worcestershire, England, a few miles to the south of Kidderminster and downstream on the River Severn from Bewdley. At the 2011 ce ...
, whose brother was George Pearce Baldwin
George Pearce Baldwin (17 May 1789 – 1 October 1840) came from Broseley in Shropshire and moved to Worcestershire at the start of the 19th Century, becoming an iron founder at Stourport-on-Severn. He was the son of Thomas Baldwin and Mar ...
. He became a member of the family firm of Baldwin, Son & Co in 1839, becoming in time senior partner.Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881/ref>
William Retlaw Williams
William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conques ...
br>''The Parliamentary History of the County of Worcester''. /ref> In 1880, Baldwin was elected Member of Parliament for Bewdley after the sitting MP Charles Harrison was unseated on petition. He held the seat until 1885. He subsequently became JP for Worcestershire and in March 1889 a County Councillor. Baldwin lived at The Mount, Stourport, and died at the age of 82. He was first cousin to
Alfred Baldwin Alfred Baldwin may refer to:
* Alfred Baldwin (politician) (1841–1908), English businessman and Conservative MP, father of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
* Alfred C. Baldwin III (1936–2020), "shadow man" in the 1972 Watergate break-in
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Baldwin married Elizabeth Langford Tildesley daughter of Henry Tildesley on 27 Feb 1849. She died in 1875 and he married secondly on 19 July 1876 to Emily Lydia Driver daughter of Rev. George Frederick Driver a Wesleyan minister.
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* 1822 births 1905 deaths People from Stourport-on-Severn Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1880–1885 Councillors in Worcestershire {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub