Career
In 1835, he was elected to Toronto City Council of the year-old City of Toronto and was chosen to be mayor. He added a business-like atmosphere to council with the official "robes of office". The council worked on matters like tax rates, grants and the removal of "filth and nuisances from the city streets".
On May 6, 1835, council"s committee on draining and paving approved construction of the city"s first main sewer on King Street into which all drains and sewers were to be connected.
Sullivan accepted an appointment to the council. In the same year, he became the commissioner of crown lands.
Although criticized by many as a turncoat, he was an able administrator. He supported the union of Upper and Lower Canada and was appointed to the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada.
He served briefly as the first Commissioner of Crown Lands for the united province February 10, 1841 – June 30, 1841.
In 1848, he was appointed to the Queen"s Bench. Judge Sullivan died April 14, 1853 in Toronto. He was buried on the Baldwin family estate, now the grounds of Spadina House in Toronto.
Baldwin was born in Bandon, County Cork in the Ireland in 1802 and came to York, Upper Canada with his family in 1819.
He studied law and was called to the bar in 1828. Emily Louisa was born in Ceylon.
Emily Louisa remarried June 14, 1875, as the second wife of the Honorary Sir Francis Hincks, C.B., Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George, formerly Premier of the Province of Canada and, subsequently, Governor of the Windward Islands and of British Guiana.
Lady Hincks died in Montreal May 14, 1880, aged 64.
Sir Francis Hincks died in Montreal, August 18, 1885.