Baltimore, George Calvert, 1st Baron

Baltimore, George Calvert, 1st Baron

▪ British statesman
also called  (1617–25) Sir George Calvert  
born 1578/79, Kipling, Yorkshire, Eng.
died April 15, 1632
 English statesman who projected the founding of the North American province of Maryland, in an effort to find a sanctuary for practicing Roman Catholics.

      Calvert was educated at Trinity College, Oxford (B.A., 1597), and became secretary to Robert Cecil, afterward earl of Salisbury. Calvert served in the House of Commons from 1609 to 1611. He was knighted in 1617, became a secretary of state in 1619, and was given a pension in 1620. Serving in the House of Commons from 1621, he had the tasks of communicating King James I's (James I) policy and of obtaining royal supplies. He was distrusted by the Parliament and was in favour of the unpopular alliance with Spain and the king's Spanish marriage. On Feb. 12, 1625, after he had declared himself a Roman Catholic, Calvert gave up his office, was created Baron Baltimore in the Irish peerage, and received a grant of large estates in Ireland.

      In 1621 Baltimore had sent Captain Edward Wynne to Newfoundland to establish a small settlement named Ferryland; (Ferryland) two years later he procured a charter for the colony under the name Avalon. In order to assure the prosperity of his holdings in the New World, Baltimore visited Avalon briefly in 1627 and returned with most of his family the following year. In the course of this extended visit, conflict arose over his Roman Catholic practices, the saying of masses, and the presence of priests who had accompanied him to Avalon. In addition, the climate proved too severe, taking its toll in death and illness among the settlers, and Lady Baltimore left the colony for Virginia in 1628. Baltimore thereupon petitioned King Charles I for a land grant in the more temperate Chesapeake Bay area and, without waiting for a reply, sailed for Jamestown to join his wife. He was, however, forbidden to settle in Virginia because of his religion. He therefore returned to England to plead his case for the Maryland charter but died before a new cession could be secured. (The cession was secured by his son.)

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