He was born near Halifax, Yorkshire,[1] only son- he had nine sisters- of Lieutenant-Colonel John Baldwin of the 9th Dragoons, and Eliza, daughter of Rev.
Lambton Loraine, rector of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, and Nailstone, Leicestershire by his wife Isabella, daughter of Sir Lancelot Allgood, of Nunwick Hall, Northumberland.
[2][3] Baldwin was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford where he developed interests in cricket and dramatics.
[7][8] Baldwin died at his home, St Anne's House in Tintern in 1896.
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