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An opportune legacy enabled his father to buy a large property outside 'muddy York, on which, in accordance with hereditary landholding instinct, he endeavoured to establish his family, after the old-world fashion. A broad thoroughfare in Toronto preserves the name of Baldwin's ambition, 'Spadina. Like his father, Robert Baldwin was a Moderate Reformer.
Baldwin attempted to re-enter political life. The resignation of the two leaders involved a new election, and Baldwin was defeated in his own 'pocket borough' by Hartman, a Clear Grit. That was the end. He retired to his estate 'Spadina, his health shattered by his close attention to the service of the state.
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