Lucy Baldwin, Countess Baldwin of Bewdley

Lucy Baldwin, Countess Baldwin of Bewdley, GBE, DGStJ was an English writer and activist for maternity health. From 1892 until her death in 1945, she was the wife of Stanley Baldwin, threetime Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. She was invested as a Dame of Grace, Order of Saint John of Jerusalem and a Dame Grand Cross, Order of the British Empire, and styled as Countess Baldwin of Bewdley onJune 1937.

She was born Lucy Ridsdale in Bayswater, London, the oldest daughter of Edward Lucas Jenks Ridsdale and Esther Lucy Ridsdale. Known as Cissie, she grew up with her sister and three brothers in the village in of Rottingdean, on the Sussex coast. Her brother Edward became a member of parliament from Brighton.

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