List of honours of Stanley Baldwin explained

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

Crest:	A Cockatrice sejant wings addorsed Argent combed wattled and beaked Or gorged with a Crown Vallary lined and reflexed over the back Gold and charged on the shoulder with a Rose Gules barbed and seeded proper
Coronet:	A Coronet of an Earl
Escutcheon:	Argent on a Saltire Sable a Quatrefoil Or
Supporters:	On either side a White Owl proper, that on the sinister holding in the beak a Sprig of Broom also proper
Motto:	Per Deum Meum Transilio Murum (With the help of my God I leap over the wall)
Symbolism:	As a member of the House of Lords with a Hereditary peerage, Baldwin was entitled to use a personal coat of arms.

Commonwealth honours

Commonwealth Realms

Country	Date	Decoration	Post-nominal letters
	189714 December 1947		JP
	5 June 192014 December 1947		PC
	2 August 192714 December 1947		PC
	28 May 193714 December 1947		KG

Decorations and medals

Other distinctions

Scholastic

University Degrees

Location	Date	School	Degree
			Third-class honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) in History
			Metallurgy

Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector and fellowships

Location	Date	School	Position
	19231926		Rector
	19281931		Rector
	19291947		Chancellor
	19301947		Chancellor
	19301947		Visitor

Honorary Degrees

Location	Date	School	Degree
	12 June 1923		^[1]
	1925		Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) ^[2]
	26 January 1934		^[3]

Memberships and fellowships

Country	Date	Organisation	Position
	192714 December 1947		Fellow (FRS)
	1938		President ^[4]

Freedom of the City

• 15 November 1923: Worcester.^[5]
• 13 March 1925: Leeds.
• 8 August 1925: Bewdley.^[6]
• 5 October 1925: Glasgow.^[7]
• 14 June 1926: Edinburgh.^[8]
• 1928: Aberystwyth^[9]

Places named after Baldwin

(British Columbia) Mount Stanley Baldwin (1927).

Notes and References

1. Web site: Honorary degrees at Cambridge University . Lord Grey and Mr Stanley Baldwin . 12 June 1923 | Alfieri – Europeana Collections . 4 September 2019 . 3 September 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190903120410/https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/2024904/photography_ProvidedCHO_TopFoto_co_uk_EU004878.html . dead .
2. Web site: Stock Photo – 'Honorary Degree at Oxford', 1925, (1945). Creator: Unknown.
3. Lord Derby and the University of Liverpool . Nature . 1 February 1934 . 133 . 3353 . 168 . 10.1038/133168c0 . 1934Natur.133S.168. . free .
4. Web site: About MCC | MCC.
5. Web site: Mr Baldwin Freedom of Worcester.
6. Web site: Mr. Baldwin receives the freedom of Bewdley. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister, was made the first honorary freeman of the ancient borough of Bewdley, England, on Saturday, August 8th ... / Photo by Underwood & Underwood, New York. Library of Congress.
7. Web site: Mr Baldwin.
8. Web site: Mr. Baldwin.
9. Web site: Honorary Freemen – Aberystwyth Council.