as prime minister, and she was an excellent speaker who found her own voice in politics. She was involved in the Young Women's Christian Association and other charitable bodies for women, especially those concerned to improve maternity care, after having herself suffered difficult pregnancies and the loss of her first child. In 1928, she became vice-chairman of the newly established National Birthday Trust Fund to address the high incidence of maternal mortality. Its original aims were to support maternity hospitals and contribute to the development of midwifery practice. In 1929, she helped found the Anæsthetics Appeal Fund with speeches, broadcasts and fund-raising. She was particularly concerned with reducing the pain of childbirth, and lobbied for new funds to make anaesthesia affordable for low-income women. Her work contributed to the passage of the Midwives Act 1936. Death She died suddenly of a heart attack in 1945 at Astley Hall, their country home in Worcestershire, She was cremated and her ashes were interred, with those of her husband, after his death in 1947 in the nave of Worcester Cathedral. Legacy In honour of her work for maternity care, philanthropist and cricket enthusiast Julien Cahn donated funds to build the Lucy Baldwin Maternity Hospital in Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire. It was commemorated by the prime minister on 16 April 1929, with a bronze dedication plaque over the main entrance reading . It expanded beyond maternity and became known as the Lucy Baldwin Hospital until its closure in 2006. In the 1960s, a new device that administered a combination of Nitrous oxide and oxygen for obstetrics, was named the Lucy Baldwin Apparatus For Obstetric Analgesia. Baldwin also wrote valuable notes of two major events in politics, the fall of the Lloyd George ministry and the Abdication Crisis. References External links 1869 births 1945 deaths Stanley Baldwin Spouses of prime ministers of the United Kingdom Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire Dames of Grace of the Order of St John British countesses Burials at Worcester Cathedral English health activists English non-fiction writers Wives of knights