Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore
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Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore was an English politician and lawyer who was the first proprietor of Maryland.
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Modern reconstruction of Dove, one of the two ships that carried settlers to plant Lord Baltimore's first settlement in Maryland in 1634.
Leonard Calvert, Lord Baltimore's younger brother and the first governor of the Maryland colony.
Maryland Toleration Act, passed in 1649.
Cecil's son and heir, Charles, 3rd Baron Baltimore.
The 2nd Baron Baltimore is portrayed on the 1934 Maryland Tercentenary half dollar, designed by Hans SchulerIn their orbit 8
Politicians born in the 1600s 6
About this person
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore 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) along with Maryland after the 1632 death of his father, George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (1580-1632), for whom it had been originally intended in a vast land grant from King Charles I. Young Calvert proceeded to establish and manage the Province of Maryland as a proprietary colony for English Catholics from his English country house of Kiplin Hall in North Yorkshire.
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