24 Facts About Robert Baldwin

Robert Baldwin was an Upper Canadian lawyer and politician who with his political partner Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine of Lower Canada, led the first responsible government ministry in the Province of Canada.

Robert Baldwin's father was William Warren Baldwin.

The Russell-Willcocks-Robert Baldwin family formed an elite "compact" much like the infamous "Family Compact" led by Sir John Robinson against whom they fought.

In 1827, Robert Baldwin, married his cousin Augusta Elizabeth Sullivan, daughter of Daniel Sullivan.

Robert Baldwin was the grandfather of Frederick Walker Baldwin, a Canadian aviation pioneer and partner of the famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell.

Robert Baldwin was the grandfather of Robert Baldwin Ross, a French-born journalist, art critic, and literary executor of Oscar Wilde.

In 1836, when Robert Baldwin convinced the members of the Executive Council to resign over Lt.

Robert Baldwin's bill allowed for two elected councilors from each township, but the warden, clerk, and treasurer were to be appointed by the government.

Robert Baldwin was one of the few Reformers who opposed the District Council Act; he considered its reform by the Robert Baldwin Act in 1849 one of his greatest accomplishments.

The Robert Baldwin Act made the municipal government truly democratic rather than an extension of central control of the Crown.

Robert Baldwin was described as melancholy, and awkward in public.

Robert Baldwin took no part in the Political Union movement of the 1830s.

Robert Baldwin sought out and appointed reformers Baldwin, John Dunn and John Rolph to the Executive Council with three Compact members.

Robert Baldwin's condition for joining the Executive Council was a verbal commitment by Bond Head to a responsible government.

Bond Head later refused to give written confirmation of the agreement, so Robert Baldwin resigned within a month and convinced the other councilors, both Reform and Tory, to resign with him.

Robert Baldwin called an immediate election, in which he as Lt.

Robert Baldwin traveled to Great Britain in 1836 to see the colonial secretary, Lord Glenelg but was refused.

Robert Baldwin served as an intermediary, with John Rolph, between the rebels and the Lt.

Robert Baldwin attempted to solicit Reform support by appointing Baldwin as Solicitor General in 1840.

Robert Baldwin insisted that Sydenham include LaFontaine in the reformed Executive Council, or he would resign as Solicitor General.

Robert Baldwin was replaced with Sir Charles Metcalfe, whose instructions were to check the "radical" reform government.

Robert Baldwin had been at a loss about where to run after his loss in Hastings.

LaFontaine, in yet another act of friendship, gave up his seat representing 4th York, thus allowing the desperate Robert Baldwin to run there.

Robert Baldwin died on 9 December 1858 in Spadina aged 54.