# List of awards and honours received by Stanley Baldwin

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

Coat of arms of List of awards and honours received by Stanley Baldwin :
* CoronetA Coronet of an Earl
* CrestA 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
* EscutcheonArgent on a Saltire Sable a Quatrefoil Or
* SupportersOn either side a White Owl proper, that on the sinister holding in the beak a Sprig of Broom also proper
* MottoPer Deum Meum Transilio Murum (With the help of my God I leap over the wall)
* SymbolismAs 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 |
| United Kingdom | 1897 – 14 December 1947 | Justice of the Peace for the County of Worcestershire | JP |
| United Kingdom | 5 June 1920 – 14 December 1947 | Member of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council | PC |
| Canada | 2 August 1927 – 14 December 1947 | Member of the King's Privy Council for Canada | PC |
| England | 28 May 1937 – 14 December 1947 | Knight of the Order of the Garter | KG |

### Decorations and medals

| Country | Date | Decoration | Post-nominal letters |
| United Kingdom | 12 May 1937 | King George VI Coronation Medal | |

## Other distinctions
### Scholastic
#### University Degrees

| Location | Date | School | Degree |
| England | | Trinity College, Cambridge | Third-class honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) in History |
| England | | Mason College | Metallurgy |

#### Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector and fellowships

| Location | Date | School | Position |
| Scotland | 1923 – 1926 | University of Edinburgh | Rector |
| Scotland | 1928 – 1931 | University of Glasgow | Rector |
| Scotland | 1929 – 1947 | University of St Andrews | Chancellor |
| England | 1930 – 1947 | University of Cambridge | Chancellor |
| England | 1930 – 1947 | Girton College, Cambridge | Visitor |

#### Honorary Degrees

| Location | Date | School | Degree |
| England | 12 June 1923 | University of Cambridge | |
| England | 1925 | University of Oxford | Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) |
| England | 26 January 1934 | University of Liverpool | |

### Memberships and fellowships

| Country | Date | Organisation | Position |
| United Kingdom | 1927 – 14 December 1947 | Royal Society | Fellow (FRS) |
| United Kingdom | 1938 | Marylebone Cricket Club | President |

## Freedom of the City

* 15 November 1923: Worcester.
* 13 March 1925: Leeds.
* 8 August 1925: Bewdley.
* 5 October 1925: Glasgow.
* 14 June 1926: Edinburgh.
* 1928: Aberystwyth
* Unknown: London.

## Places named after Baldwin

Canada (British Columbia) Mount Stanley Baldwin (1927).