Born 3 June 1860, eldest son of George Baldwin and Marthe Ann Moore his wife. He was educated at Nottingham Grammar School and at the Middlesex Hospital. He became in due course consulting surgeon to the West London Hospital, to St Mark's Hospital for Diseases of the Rectum, to the Royal Masonic Hospital, the Eltham and Mottingham Hospital, and the Brentford and Acton Hospital. Baldwin served the offices of president of the West London Medico-chirurgical Society, and of the proctological section of the Royal Society of Medicine. He married on 27 July 1912 Lucy Wordsworth, who survived him with a son. He died on 18 March 1945, and the funeral service at St Mark's Church, Hamilton Terrace, NW8 was followed by cremation at Golders Green. Baldwin lived at 31 Abercorn Place, St John's Wood, NW8. He was always a general surgeon, though with a preference for proctology. Publications:- Prevention of discomfort after operation. *West London med J*. 1914, 19, 259. Causes of intestinal disease. *Proc Roy Soc Med*. 1923 24, 17, Proctology, p 33. Some painful conditions about the anus. *Postgrad med J*. 1933, 9, 145.