Philip Christopher Baldwin

Baldwin attended Fettes College from 1996 to 2003 where he experienced bullying and homophobia.[7][8][9] From 2003 to 2006, Baldwin studied history at Oriel College, University of Oxford.[10] He studied an MPhil in the history of art and architecture at Peterhouse College, Cambridge.[11]

Baldwin worked in financial services in London and New York from 2009 to 2015.[12] In January 2010, at the age of 24, he was diagnosed with HIV.[3][10] Baldwin is a former atheist and now practises Christianity.[3][13] Baldwin has campaigned about LGBT rights, HIV, awareness and faith inclusion of LGBT people.[14][15][16] He is an ambassador for the LGBT charity Stonewall. Other charity organisations he has worked with include Rainbow Migration,[17] Positively UK, the Albert Kennedy Trust and the Terrence Higgins Trust.[3][18] Lay members of the Deanery Synod elected Baldwin to the eleventh General Synod of the Church of England in 2021.[4] Baldwin collects English portraiture from 1750 to 1780, including works by founders of the Royal Academy of Arts.[19] In 2014, Baldwin claimed that upon his death he will bequeath Portrait of the Artist’s Wife by Nathaniel Hone and Portrait of a Gentleman by Daniel Gardner to the Ashmolean Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, London.[10][20]