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Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (8 August 1605 – 30 November 1675) was an English politician and lawyer who was the first proprietor of Maryland.Born in Kent, England in 1605, he inherited the proprietorship of overseas colonies in Avalon (Newfoundland) (off the eastern coast of the North America continent), along with Maryland after the 1632 death of his father, George Calvert, 1st Baron ...
A life-sized bronze statue on a granite pedestal of Cecil, 2nd Lord Baltimore (1605–1675), is located on the steps of the western end at the St. Paul Street entrance of the Baltimore City Circuit Court House, the third courts structure on the nearby colonial-era Courthouse Square site (located to the east along North Calvert Street ...
The Province of Maryland was a proprietary colony, in the hands of the Calvert family, who held it from 1633 to 1689, and again from 1715 to 1776. George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (1580–1632) is often regarded as the founder of Maryland, but he died before the colony could be organized. The Province of Maryland.
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.
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.
Anne Calvert, Baroness Baltimore (née Hon. Anne Arundell; c. 1615 /1616 [1] – 23 July 1649) [1] was an English noblewoman, the daughter of Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour [2] by his second wife Anne Philipson, [3] and wife of Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, who founded the Province of Maryland in 1634.
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (Lord Baltimore), the original namesake of the City of Baltimore, Maryland and adjacent Baltimore County; Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore (1637–1715) Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore (1679–1715) Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore (1699–1751) Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore (1731–1771)
The effect of this document was to create a semi-independent colony, ruled by Lord Baltimore as Duke. Led by Cecil Calvert’s brother, Leonard Calvert, the first settlers of the new colony, a party of Catholic gentry and Church of England Protestants, landed in present-day St. Mary's City on March 27, 1634.