page_title: Oliver Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Oliver Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley / Life and career / Later years / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: The marks the final resting place of Oliver Ridsdale (Baldwin) on a hilltop on the island of Antigua in the West Indies.
context_page_description: Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, known as Viscount Corvedale from 1937 to 1947, was a British socialist politician who had a career at political odds with his father, the Conservative prime minister Stanley Baldwin.
  Educated at Eton, which he hated, Baldwin left as soon as he could. After serving in the army during the First World War he undertook various jobs, including a brief appointment as an officer in the Armenian army, and wrote journalism and books on a range of topics. He served two terms as a Labour Member of Parliament between 1929 and 1947.
  Baldwin never achieved ministerial office in Britain. His last post was as Governor of the Leeward Islands, from 1948 to 1950.
context_section_description: Baldwin died in Mile End Hospital, London, in 1958. He was unmarried and was succeeded in the earldom and viscountcy by his younger brother Arthur. His ashes are interred on a hilltop on the island of Antigua.  The stone inscription reads, Here lie the ashes of Oliver Ridsdale Second Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Born March 1899 Died August 1958. Governor, Commander in Chief in and over the Leeward Islands and Vice Admiral of the same 1948 – 1950. He loved the people of these islands. RIP.
caption: Baldwin's tombstone on a hilltop on the island of Antigua.
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