Ruth Baldwin
Ruth Baldwin may refer to: * Ruth Bowyer (1761–1788), English convict sent to Australia, also known as Ruth Baldwin * Ruth Ann Baldwin (1886–?), American silent film writer and director * Ruth Baldwin (socialite) (1905–1937), American-born English socialite * Ruth Standish Baldwin (1865–1934), co-founder of the National Urban League * Ruth M. Baldwin, book collector who founded the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature The Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature in the Department of Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries contains more than 130,000 books and serials published in Great Britain a ...

Ruth Bowyer
Ruth Bowyer ( – 5 June 1788), also known as Ruth Baldwin, was an English convict sent to Australia aboard a ship of the First Fleet. Convicted in 1786 for the theft of five spoons from a Surrey hotel, she was sentenced to seven years' transportation but died two years later and was buried beside the shore of Sydney Cove. Early life Prior to her arrest, Bowyer had been living with her aunt in Egham in Surrey. In May 1786 she started work as a kitchen maid at the Bush Hotel at Staines but was dismissed on 24 June. Later that day the publican, Joseph White, noticed that three monogrammed table spoons and two silver dessert spoons were missing from the hotel. Bowyer was arrested on 7 October on suspicion of stealing the spoons. She spent three weeks in Newgate Prison and was brought to trial at the Old Bailey on 25 October before a twelve-member jury and Justice William Rose of London. Trial According to evidence at her trial, Bowyer had on 7 October approached James Coombes, ...
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Ruth Ann Baldwin
Ruth Ann Baldwin was a journalist who became a silent film writer and director active during the 1910s, one of the few women to direct in the early era of filmmaking. Despite the fact that she was one of the first female directors in America, not much is known about her, but the work she did in the 1910s was relevant to the society she lived in. Early life Ruth Ann Baldwin was born in September 1886 in West Suffield, Connecticut, to Charles Baldwin and Abby Taylor. Her father died when she was young, and she and her mother relocated to the San Diego, California, area. Ruth Ann attended school in National City, where her musical talents were evident, before forging a career as a journalist. After working as a society columnist at '' The San Diego Sun'', she appears to have moved to Los Angeles around 1913. She was engaged to be married to Walter Bullard Ridgeway, a landscape architect, that same year, although that marriage does not seem to have taken place. Baldwin later marri ...
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Ruth Baldwin (socialite)
Catherine Ruth Baldwin (17 February 1905 – 31 August 1937) was an American-born English socialite, part of the Bright Young Things crowd. She was the first important lover of American heiress Joe Carstairs. Biography Catherine Ruth Baldwin was born on 17 February 1905 in England. In the 1920s in London, she was known for her use of heroin, cocaine and alcohol. It has been said that she turned the kitchen of the house where she lived with Joe Carstairs into a bar. Carstairs' friends later said, "She was wild. She was such fun. Ruth was really ''wild''." She said to Carstairs, "The world is one's oyster if taken at will." Her circle of friends included painter Edward Burra and society portrait photographers Barbara Ker-Seymer and Olivia Wyndham, the last possibly her lover as well. When Carstairs purchased her first motorboat, Baldwin gave her a Steiff doll; Carstairs named it ''Lord Tod Wadley''. She became exceptionally attached to this doll, keeping it with her until her dea ...
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Ruth Standish Baldwin
Ruth Standish Baldwin (December 5, 1865 – December 1934) was the wife of railroad tycoon William Henry Baldwin Jr. and a co-founder of the National Urban League. Her father was Samuel Bowles III. Her daughter married a painter. She graduated from Smith College in 1887. She married Baldwin in 1889. They had two children, Ruth Standish Baldwin and William Henry Baldwin III. Her husband died in 1905. The same year she joined with Frances Kellor, a social worker and attorney, to form the National League for the Protection of Colored Women in order to protect women migrating to the north who might be "easy targets for con men who could lead them into prostitution". The NLPCW organized to steer women into safe employment instead. She founded the Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negros with George Edmund Haynes in 1910. She commissioned architect Ehrick Rossiter to design the Standish House (1910), later renamed Edgewood. She is credited with influencing her nephew Chester Bow ...
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