Editing Stanley Baldwin (section)

===Member of Parliament===
In the [[1906 United Kingdom general election|1906 general election]] he contested [[Kidderminster (UK Parliament constituency)|Kidderminster]] but lost amidst the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] landslide defeat after the party split on the issue of free trade. In [[1908 Bewdley by-election|a by-election in 1908]] he was elected [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Bewdley (UK Parliament constituency)|Bewdley]], in which role he succeeded his father, who had died earlier that year. During the First World War he became [[Parliamentary Private Secretary]] to the party leader [[Bonar Law]]. In 1917 he was appointed to the junior ministerial post of [[Financial Secretary to the Treasury]], where he sought to encourage voluntary donations by the rich to repay the United Kingdom's war debt, writing letters to ''[[The Times]]'' under the pseudonym 'FST', many of which were published. He relinquished to the Treasury one fifth of his own fortune (its total estimated at own account as £580,000) held in the form of [[War Loan]] stock worth £120,000.<ref name="Stuart_Ball">{{cite odnb|last= Ball |first = Stuart | title = Baldwin, Stanley, first Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1867–1947)" | id = 30550 }}</ref>