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Baldwyn was the fourth of successive generations of his family to represent Ludlow, near which they owned considerable property and of which his father was recorder. Classed in 1713 as a Tory who often voted with the Whigs, he was defeated in 1715, but returned again in 1722. His name was sent to the Pretender in 1721 as a probable supporter in the event of a rising.Stuart mss 65/16. The heir to a considerable fortune through his mother, he did not live long enough to inherit it, dying 30 Jan. 1727.Salop Arch. Soc. Trans. (ser. 4), ii. 344-7.

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