George Pearce Baldwin

George Pearce Baldwin came from Broseley in Shropshire and moved to Worcestershire at the start of the 19th Century, becoming an iron founder at Stourport-on-Severn. He was the son of Thomas Baldwin and Mary Gough.
He had 12 children, the youngest of whom, Alfred, father of the future prime minister Stanley Baldwin, was born in 1841, the year after George died.

Family life

He was married to Anne Hill on 16 April 1812; together they had two children:

Pearce Baldwin
William Hill Baldwin.

He then married Sarah Chalkley Stanley, daughter of Reverend Jacob Stanley, on 4 October 1822. His children by his second wife were:

George Baldwin, died in infancy
George Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin
Sarah Anne Baldwin
Edward Baldwin
Mary Jane Baldwin
Lucilla Baldwin
Eliza Baldwin
Alfred Baldwin, father of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin

After George Pearce Baldwin's death, his sons Pearce and William took over the Wilden Ironworks in 1849 with their uncle, Enoch Baldwin. This ironworks incorporated Wilden Forge members of the Foley family until 1776, and after that by various tenants. The Wilden Works were taken over in 1870 by the youngest half-brother of Pearce and William, Alfred. It became the basis for the subsequent fortune of the Baldwin family.