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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 ...
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.
There are also Charles Street and Calvert Street in Baltimore. Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore is the namesake of Cecil County, Maryland, Cecil Avenue, Cecil Elementary School and Calvert Street in Baltimore, along with another Calvert Street (alley) in Brooklyn (a South Baltimore city neighbourhood bordering suburban Anne Arundel County ...
A painting of Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore.. The Province of Maryland was founded by Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore in 1634. Like his father George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, who had originated the efforts that led to the colony's charter, he was Catholic at a time when the Kingdom of England was dominated by the Church of England. [2]
Portrait of Cecil Calvert, 2nd Lord Baltimore, with his grandson, Cecil (1667–1680), son of Charles Calvert. Calvert's right hand is holding a map of Maryland that he first published in 1635 to promote his colonization plan. A slave of unknown identity appears in the background of the painting to highlight Calvert's wealth.
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.
Cecil Calvert may refer to: Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (1605–1675), first proprietor of Maryland; Cecil Calvert (politician), Unionist politician in ...
The city is named after Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, [16] (1605–1675), [17] of the Irish House of Lords and founding proprietor of the Province of Maryland. [18] [19] Cecilius Calvert was the oldest son of Sir George Calvert, (1579–1632), who became the First Lord Baltimore of County Longford, Ireland in 1625.