“I owe a great deal of my public and private life to my Nonconformist ancestry.”

— Stanley Baldwin

Speech to the Nonconformist Unionist League (8 April 1924), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 269.
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Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1867–1947

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