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George calvert, 1st baron baltimore

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CALVERT,GEORGE, 1st Baron Baltimore, colonizer in Newfoundland; b. at Kipling, Yorkshire, c. 1580, the son of Leonard Calvert and his wife Alice, daughter of John Crosland of Crosland; d. 15 April 1632 in England.

George Calvert was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, and, in 1606, was appointed private secretary to Sir Robert Cecil. Advancing rapidly in the public service, he became clerk of the Privy Council in 1608 and was elected M.P. for Bossiney in 1609. Knighted in 1617, two years later he was made secretary of state and a member of the Privy Council. One of the leaders of the court party, he proved an effective exponent of the royal policy in Parliament until his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1625 led to his resignation as secretary of state. On his retirement from politics he was created Baron Baltimore of county Longford, Ireland, as a reward for his loyalty to the king.

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George Calvert

(Lord Baltimore)
1699–1751

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George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, was born in England about 1580, and was the descendant of a noble Flemish family of the same name. He studied at Oxford University. He was appointed by James I one of the principal secretaries of state, which office he resigned in 1624, when he avowed his conversion to the Roman Catholic faith. James, however, retained him in the Privy Council and made him Baron of Baltimore in Longford County, Ireland. Obtaining a grant from that sovereign of a large tract of land in Newfoundland, he founded there at great expense, and for several years sustained, a colony named Avalon. Owing to the rigorous climate and difficulties with the French, his efforts were not crowned with success. Desirous, however, of securing a place where his fellow Catholics could enjoy liberty of worship, he visited Virginia in 1628 and explored the adjacent territory. Returning to England, he obtained from Charles I a grant of land embracing the present State of Maryland. His

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George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore

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English politician (1580–1632)

George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (; 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. He lost much of his political power after his support for a failed marriage alliance between Prince Charles and the Spanish House of Habsburg royal family. Rather than continue in politics, he resigned all of his political offices in 1625 except for his position on the Privy Council and declared his Catholicism publicly. He was created Baron Baltimore in the Peerage of Ireland upon his resignation. Baltimore Manor was located in County Longford, Ireland.

Calvert took an interest in the British colonization of the Americas, at first for commercial reasons and later to create a refuge for persecuted Irish and English Catholics. He became the proprietor of Avalon, the first sustained English settlement on the southeastern peni