Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (1867-1947) was a British Conservative politician who served on three occasions as Prime Minister of the UK. (1923-4; 1924-9; 1935-7). During his latter period in office he oversaw the abdication of King Edward VIII.

His mother, Louisa MacDonald, was the grand-daughter of James MacDonald who was called into the ministry in Ireland by John Wesley in 1784. Her father was George B MacDonald who entered  the itinerancy in 1825 and her brother was Frederic W MacDonald who served as President of the British Wesleyan Conference in 1899. There were also Methodists on the Baldwin side of the family descended from Rev Jacob Stanley, Sen.

Through his mother’s family, Stanley Baldwin was also a first cousin of the writer and poet Rudyard Kipling.