Editing Stanley Baldwin (section)

==Last years and death==
[[File:Worcester Cathedral Baldwin of Bewdley grave.jpg|thumb|[[Worcester Cathedral]], grave of the 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley and his wife [[Lucy Baldwin|Lucy, née Ridsdale]]]]
In June 1945, Baldwin's wife, [[Lucy Baldwin|Lucy]], died. Baldwin himself now suffered from [[arthritis]] and needed a cane to walk. When he made his final public appearance in London in October 1947 at the unveiling of a statue of [[George V]], a crowd of people recognised and cheered him, but he had become deaf and so asked: "Are they booing me?"<ref>Middlemas and Barnes, p. 1070.</ref> Having been made [[Chancellor of the University of Cambridge]] in 1930, he continued in that capacity until his death in his sleep at [[Astley Hall, Stourport-on-Severn|Astley Hall]], near [[Stourport-on-Severn]], [[Worcestershire]], on 14 December 1947. He was cremated in Birmingham, and his ashes were buried in [[Worcester Cathedral]].<ref name="Stuart_Ball"/> No cause of death was revealed.

A memorial service was held at [[Wilden, Worcestershire|Wilden Church]], near [[Stourport-on-Severn|Stourport]], Worcestershire.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/69488/|title=EARL OF BALDWIN MEMORIAL SERVICES|website=British Pathé}}</ref>

Baldwin was a member of the [[Oddfellows]] and [[Foresters Friendly Society]].{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}