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Hello everyone, I’m new here. I'm trying to verify the Lennard Readman Calvert 1550-1611, father of Sir George 1st Baron of Baltimore, is the brother of Sir Robert Calvert 1546-1616 and William Calvert 1554-1587. All the sons of John George Calvert
1525-1566 and Dorothy Lennard 1527-1611.
George's father was simply named Lennard Calvert
http://books.google.com/books?id=27EKAAAAYAAJ&as_brr=1&pg=PA226#v=onepage&q&f=false
The 1910 of CP edition has some changes. Here's an uncorrected scan of my copy:
BALTIMORE (a)
BARONY [I.] I. George Calvert, of Danbywiske, co. York, s. and j h. of Leonard C., by Alice, da. of John Crossland, of
Crossland in that co., £. at Kipling, in the Chapelry of
Bolton, co. York, in 1578 or 1579; matric. at Oxford (Trin. Coll.) as a Gent. Commoner, 12 July 1594, then aged 14. B.A. Feb. 1597; Under Secretary of State; Clerk of the Privy Council 1605; was on a special diplomatic mission to France 1611, and to the
Elector Palatine, 1615; Knighted 29 Sep. 1617; Secretary of State Feb. 1618/9-25; P.C. 16 Feb. 1618/9; a Lord of the Treasury Jan. to Dec. 1620. He received a life pension of £ 1,000 a year, and obtained a grant of the province of Avalon, in
Newfoundland, with most extensive privileges, which province, after expending £25,000 thereon, he had to abandon owing to the severity of the winter climate; was M.P. for Bossiney 1609-11; co. York 1620-22; and for Oxford Univ. 1624-25. He resigned his
preferments Feb. 1624/5, having become a Roman Catholic, but inasmuch as he had received large grants of land in Ireland, was, on 16 Feb. 1624/5, cr- BARON BALTIMORE of Baltimore^) [I.]. He obtained from Charles I a grant of Maryland (®) (on broader
terms than he had held that of Avalon),(d) which grant was made out to his s. and h., under the great seal, 20 June 1632, a few weeks after his death. He m., istly, 22 Nov. 1604, at St. Peter’s, Cornhill, Anne, da. of George Mynne, of Hertingfordbury,
Herts, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Thomas Wroth. She d. 8 Aug. 1622, and was bur. at Hertingfordbury. M.L He m., 2ndly, in or before 1627, Joan, who went with him to Avalon, but d. before him. He d. 15 Apr. 1632, and was bur. at St. Dunstan’s-in-the-West,
London. Will dat. 14, pr. 21 Apr. 1632. Inq.p. m. 13 Sep. 1633, at York.
11. 1632. 2. Cecil (*) (Calvert), Baron Baltimore [I.], s. and h., bap. 2 Mar. 1605/6, at Bexley, Kent. He was heavily mulcted by the Parliamentary party, though he is not known to have actually fought for the King. He tn. (settlement 20 Mar. 1627/8) Anne, da. of Thomas (Arundell), 1st Lord Arundell of Wardour, by
his 2nd wife, Anne, 3rd da. of Miles Philipson, of Crook, Westmorland. She d. in
(a) A good deal of information in this article has been obtained from Thos. Hearne’s diaries, and more from Charles Weathers Bump, John Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, U.S.A. V.G.
(b) “No County is, named in the enrolment of the Baltimore patent.” (ex inform, the late Sir B. Burke, Ulster). There was not (and is not) any place of that name in co. Longford, which is the county generally assigned to this creation, but the
chartered town of Baltimore, co. Cork, (the only place of that name in Ireland) was then of considerable note.
(c) So named in honour of the Queen, Henrietta Maria.
(d) It was really a Palatinate, and modelled closely on that of Durham. V.G.
(e) After the Earl of Salisbury, who was his Godfather. V.G.
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her 34th year, 23 July 1649, and was bur. at Tisbury, Wilts. (a) M.I. He was bur. 7 Dec. 1675, at St. Giles’s-in-the-Fields, Midx. Will, dat. 22 and 28 Nov. 1675, Pr- 3 Feb. 1675/6.
III. 1675. 3. Charles (Calvert), Baron Baltimore [I.], 2nd,
but 1 st surv.(b) s. and h., b. 27 Aug. 1637. He was Governor of Maryland for his father, 1661-75, and for himself 1676, and again 1679-84; he was deprived of the Province at the Revolution of 1689. He was not present in James H’s Pari, in that year.(c)
He was outlawed by the Wexford Grand Jury in 1691, but this was reversed by the King 25 Jan. 1691/2. He was named as in the fabricated plot of Titus Oates, and in the Lancashire plot of 1694, but was not arrested. Brig. Gen. 1696, Major Gen. 1704. He
inherited the estate of Woodcote Park in Epsom, and Horton, under the will (pr. 3 Aug. 1692) of Elizabeth Evelyn, widow, a relative of his grandmother, Anne Mynne. He m., istly, about 1660, (—) sister of Sir John Darnall, da. of Ralph D., of Loughton (
or Lough- ton’s Hope), co. Hereford. She d. in childbed, in Maryland. He m., 2ndly, about 1667, Jane, widow of Henry Irwell, M.D., da. of Nicholas Lows, of Denby, co. Derby. She d. on or before 19, and was bur. 24 Jan. 1700/1, at St. Giles’s-in-the-
Fields. He m., 3rdly, Mary Bankes, widow of (—), Thorpe, of Thorpe, near Welwick, co. York, who was bur. (from St. Andrew’s, Holborn) at St. Giles’s afsd., 17 Mar. 1710/1. He m., 4thly, Margaret, da. of Thomas Charleton, of Hexham, Northumberland.
He d. 21, and was bur. 26 Feb. 1714/5, at St. Pancras, Midx., aged 77. Will dat. 29 July 1714, pr. 20 May 1715 by his widow. She w., 9 Nov. 1718, at Symond’s Chapel, Laurence Eliot, of Yapton Place, Sussex. She d. 20, and was bur. 26 July 1731, at St.
Pancras afsd. Will dat. 15, pr. 27 July 1731.
IV. 1715. 4. Benedict Leonard (Calvert), Baron Baltimore February. [I.], 2nd, but ist(d) surv. s. and h. by 2nd wife, b.
21 Mar. 1679. He conformed to the established church in 1713, and thereupon had the province of Maryland restored to him. M.P. (Tory) for Harwich 1714-15. He m., 2 Jan. 1698/9 (he 21, and she 20), Charlotte, da. of Edward Henry (Lee), 1st Earl of
Lichfield, by Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, illegit. da. of Charles II. He sold Woodstock Park (his wife’s marriage jointure) to the Crown for a gift to the Duke of Marlborough, in 1705. He d. 16 Apr., and was bur. 2 May 1715, at Epsom, Surrey. Will dat. 15
Aug. 1713, pr. 2 May 1716. His widow, from whom he was separated in 1705, m., before 10 Dec. 1719, Christopher Crowe, sometime Consul at Leghorn, who d. 9 Nov. 1749, aged 68. She, who was b. 13 Mar. 1678, in St. James’s Park, d. at Mr. Crowe’s seat at
(a) She is said to have been a most beautiful and accomplished woman. V.G.
(b) His elder br., George C., b. 15 Sep. 1634, d. v.p., June 1636. V.G.
(®) For a list of peers present in, and absent from this Pari., see volume iii, Appendix D. V.G.
(d) His elder br., Cecil C., b. 1667, or 1668, d. v.p., 1681. V.G.
Woodford, Essex, of rheumatism, 22, and was bur. there 29 Jan. 1720/1, aged 42. M.I. Admon., as of Woodford Hall, Essex, 4 Mar. 1720/1.
V. 1715. 5. Charles (Calvert), Baron Baltimore [I.], s. and h.,
. .. b. 29 Sep. 1699. Gent, of the Bedchamber to the Prince
Pri ' of Wales 1731-47, and Cofferer of the Household to that
Prince 1747-51; F.R.S. 9 Dec. 1731; Governor of Maryland (in person) 1732-33; M.P. (Tory) for St. Germans, 1734-41, and for Surrey 1741 till his death. A Lord of the Admiralty 1742-44; Elder Brother of the Trinity House 1744-51; Surveyor Gen. of the
Duchy of Cornwall 1747-51. He m., 20 July 1730, Mary, da. of Sir Theodore Janssen, of Wimbledon, Surrey, 1st Bart., by Williamsa, da. of Sir Robert Henley, of the Grange, Hants. He d. 24 Apr. 1751, and was bur. at Erith, Kent, aged 5i.(a) Will dat. 17
Nov. 1750, pr. 30 Apr. 1751. His widow d. 25 Mar. 1770, at Chaillot, near Paris.
VI. 1751 6. Frederick. (Calvert), Baron Baltimore [L], only
to s. and h., b. 6 Feb. 1731/2. Ed, at Eton. F.R.S.
1771. 26 Feb. 1767. He m., 9 Mar. 1753, Diana, da. of Scrope (Egerton), 1st Duke of Bridgewater, by his 2nd wife, Rachael, da. of Wriothesley (Russell), 2nd Duke of Bedford. She, who was b. 3 Mar. 1731/2, d. 13 Aug. 1758. Admon. 21 Nov. 1758. After a career of profligacy and extravagance, he was tried for a rape
at Kingston assizes 26 Mar. 1768, and having with difficulty escaped conviction (b) left England. He d. s.p., 4 Sep. 1771, at Naples, and was bur. at Epsom, aged 39, when the Peerage became extinct. Will pr. Jan. 1772.
Family Estates.—Most of these were sold by the last Lord to John Trotter, an upholsterer of Soho, Midx.
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