1908 Bewdley by-election

The 1908 Bewdley by-election was held on 29 February 1908. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Alfred Baldwin. It was won by his son and the future Prime Minister, the Conservative candidate Stanley Baldwin,^[1] who was unopposed.^{[citation needed]}

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^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

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1906	February: Westbury City of London East Aberdeenshire North Galway North Leitrim March: North Kilkenny Basingstoke Leicester April: Eye May: Dulwich June: Eifion City of London St George's, Hanover Square July: Bodmin East Tyrone August: Cockermouth East Denbighshire October: Mid Glamorganshire November: Galway North Armagh Huddersfield December: Mid Cork
1907	January: North East Derbyshire February: Perth Banffshire North Monmouthshire Aberdeen South Brigg March: Halifax North Tyrone Hexham April: South Westmeath Belfast North May: Stepney Wimbledon June: Hornsey Rutland North Monaghan July: Jarrow Colne Valley South Kilkenny East Wicklow North West Staffordshire August: Anglesey Bury St Edmunds September: West Down South Longford Liverpool Kirkdale November: Kingston upon Hull West
1908	January: Ashburton Ross February: Carlow County St Austell Mid Glamorganshire Worcester Leeds South North Leitrim West Carmarthenshire Bewdley March: Hastings West Down Peckham April: West Derbyshire Sheffield Central Dewsbury Manchester North West Kincardineshire May: Wolverhampton East Dundee Montrose Burghs Newport Stirling Burghs June: Pudsey July: Pembrokeshire August: Haggerston September: Newcastle-upon-Tyne December: Chelmsford
1909	January: Tamworth February: Taunton Forfarshire March: Glasgow Central Edinburgh South Hawick Burghs Croydon April: East Denbighshire Edinburgh East May: Cork Sheffield Attercliffe Stratford-on-Avon Edinburgh West June: East Limerick July: Cleveland Mid Derbyshire Dumfries Burghs High Peak August: North Sligo South Kilkenny September: West Clare October: Bermondsey November: South Armagh
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v t e Stanley Baldwin
Premierships	1923–1924 1924–1929 1935–1937
General elections	1923 1924 1929 1931 1935
Constituency	Bewdley
Family	Alfred Baldwin (father) Louisa Baldwin (mother) Lucy Baldwin (wife) Oliver Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (son) Arthur Baldwin, 3rd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (son) Rudyard Kipling (cousin) Aurelian Ridsdale (brother-in-law) Julian Ridsdale (nephew)
Career	Carlton Club meeting Power without responsibility speech National Government British Empire Economic Conference Appeasement Hoare–Laval Pact Abdication of Edward VIII Honours
Cultural depictions	The Gathering Storm (TV, 1974) Edward & Mrs. Simpson (TV, 1978) Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (TV, 1981) The Woman He Loved (TV, 1988) The Gathering Storm (TV, 2002) Wallis & Edward (TV, 2005) The King's Speech (Film, 2010) W.E. (Film, 2011)
See also	Astley Hall Earl Baldwin of Bewdley Wilden Ironworks 1908 Bewdley by-election 1921 Bewdley by-election 1924 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours

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