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George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (/ ˈ b ɔː l t ɪ m ɔːr /; 1580 – 15 April 1632) was an English politician.He achieved domestic political success as a member of parliament and later Secretary of State under King James I.
The title was granted in 1625 to Sir George Calvert (1580–1632), and it became extinct in 1771 on the death of Frederick, 6th Baron Baltimore. [1] The title was held by six members/generations of the Calvert family, who were Lord proprietors of the palatinates Province of Avalon in Newfoundland and Maryland Palatinate (later the Province of Maryland and subsequent American State of Maryland).
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.
The Calvert family is an English noble family and was a prominent family in the U.S. state of Maryland. ... Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore; Charles Calvert (governor)
Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore (1637 – 1715) English peer and colonial administrator Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore (1679 – 1715) English peer and politician Charles Calvert Lazenby (c. 1688 – 1734) British Army officer, colonial administrator, planter and Proprietary Governor of Maryland: Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore
Coat of Arms of the Barons Baltimore. Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, FRS (29 September 1699 – 24 April 1751) was an English politician and colonial administrator who served as the proprietary governor of the Province of Maryland. He inherited the title to Maryland aged just fifteen, on the death of his father and grandfather, when the ...
Calvert had numerous illegitimate children by various women, though he does appear to have attempted to support them. He is said to have left, on his death "a whole seraglio of white, black, etc, to provide for." [7] Calvert had two children by Hester Whelan: [1] Henry Harford (1758–1835), the last Lord Proprietor of Maryland.
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]