Monday 21 September 2015

978 Enoch Baldwin


Constituency : Bewdley  1880-85

Enoch  took  over  at  Bewdley  after  Charles  Harrison  was  unseated  on  petition.

Enoch  was  an  iron  founder , senior  partner  in  a  family  firm. In  1868  he  was  involved  in  a  physical  scuffle  with  local  Tories. He  was  the  uncle  of  future  Conservatie  PM, Stanley  Baldwin.

Enoch  never  spoke  in  Parliament.

Enoch  became  a  county  councillor  for  Worcestershire  in  1889.

He  died  in  1905  aged  83.

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