Mr Henry “Harry” Baldwin was born in Sutton, Lancashire, England on 6 April 1879 and was baptised on 25 May that year. One of at least ten children, he was the son of James Baldwin, a licensed victualler, and the former Charlotte Stott. 

Baldwin was raised in Sutton but by 1901 was living and working as a barman in Walton, Liverpool. Sometime after he went to sea and by 1912 was a steward aboard Carpathia when that ship rescued the survivors of the Titanic disaster.

Baldwin apparently did not continue a lengthy ocean-going career, deciding instead to settle in Warrington where he took land-based jobs; the 1939 register states that he was a steward at the local Conservative Club in Lymm.

In 1915 he married Mary Annie Davies (b. 1890 in Wednesbury, Staffordshire) and they had a son, William (b. 1916).

Harry Baldwin died in Warrington 3 December 1976 and was cremated at Walton Lea Crematorium, Warrington, Cheshire, England, his wife May Annie was also cremated here in 1979 and they are in the same plot Garden of Remembrance, Flag 217, plot 18