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Stanley Baldwin

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The Resume

    (August 3, 1867-December 14, 1947)
    Born in Bewdley, England, United Kingdom
    Member of Parliament for Bewdley (1908-37)
    Chancellor of the Exchequer (1922-23)
    Three-time Prime Minister (1923-24,1924-29,1935-37)
    Member of the Conservative Party

Why he might be annoying:

    He joined the Trinity College Debating Society, but was asked to resign for never speaking.
    His first stint as Prime Minister lasted less than a year before he lost a vote of confidence.
    When Italy invaded Ethiopia, he delivered a speech promising to support Ethiopia, then sent his foreign minister to secretly negotiate a deal that would have given most of the country to Italy (1935).
    Winston Churchill considered him too concillatory to Hitler and said, 'I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    He donated a fifth of his modest fortune to the Treasury to help pay off Britain's World War I debts.
    He organized the Central Electricity Board (1926), which increased British electrical output fourfold while cutting generating costs.
    He led an appeal to provide financial assistance to Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany (1938).

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 26 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 14 Votes: 64.29% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 38 Votes: 65.79% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 29 Votes: 62.07% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 24 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 16 Votes: 37.50% Annoying