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Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore (August 27, 1637 – February 21, 1715) was an English colonial administrator. He inherited the province of Maryland in 1675 upon the death of his father, Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore. He had been his father's Deputy Governor since 1661 when he arrived in the colony at the age of 24.
Calvert was born Charles Calvert Lazenby in England in 1688. [3] Neither of his parents has been positively identified but it may be that his father was Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, 2nd Proprietor Governor of Maryland (1637–1715), or another member of the Calvert family. [3]
Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore (1699–1751), Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland Charles Benedict Calvert (1808–1864), U.S. Congressman from the sixth district of Maryland Charles Calvert (MP) (1768–1832), English brewer and Member of Parliament
Charles Calvert was born in England on 29 September 1699, the eldest son of Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore, and Charlotte Lee, Lady Baltimore.His grandmother Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield, was the illegitimate daughter of Charles II, by his mistress, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland.
Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, painted by John Closterman. By the time Charles Calvert became governor, the population of the province had gradually shifted due to immigration, becoming, in time, an overwhelmingly Protestant British colony. Political power, however, tended to remain concentrated in the hands of the largely Roman Catholic ...
Charles Benedict Calvert (August 23, 1808 – May 12, 1864) was an American politician who was a U.S. Representative from the sixth district of Maryland, serving one term from 1861 to 1863. He was an early backer of the inventors of the telegraph , and in 1856 he founded the Maryland Agricultural College, the first agricultural research college ...
Calvert was born on 23 September 1785, the eldest child of Charles Calvert and Elizabeth Holliday. [1] [2] Charles Calvert the elder, a London-born Catholic and amateur landscape painter, was a steward for the Duke of Norfolk at Glossop Hall in Derbyshire.
Calvert was born in London on 28 February 1828, and educated at King's College School.After leaving, he spent some time in the office of a London solicitor and in a mercer's business in St. Paul's Churchyard; but before long he was drawn to the stage, having derived a first impulse towards it from the plays of Shakespeare produced at Sadler's Wells Theatre by Samuel Phelps, from whom Calvert ...