Oliver Baldwin

Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin (1899–1958) was a British politician. He was the son of the Conservative MP (and Prime Minister) Stanley Baldwin, but sat as a Labour MP from 1929 to 1931 and from 1945 to 1947. He and his father remained on good terms despite being on opposite sides politically.

Oliver Baldwin had a long term gay partner, John Boyle. This was accepted within his family, but could not be made public at the time.

When his father became a peer, Oliver Baldwin received the courtesy title of Viscount Corvedale. When his father died in 1947, he took his seat in the House of Lords as Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. Later that year he was appointed Governor of the Leeward Islands (then a British colony in the West Indies) and took John Boyle with him.

References

• Christopher J Walker, Oliver Baldwin: A Life of Dissent (Arcadia Books, 2003)