Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore
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Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore, styled The Hon. Frederick Calvert until 1751, was a British landowner who was the last Baron Baltimore.
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Frederick Calvert, 6th Lord Baltimore
Engraving of Frederick Calvert, 6th Lord Baltimore
Calvert's family seat at Woodcote Park, Surrey, in an engraving by John Hassell circa 1816
18th-century illustration of the alleged forcible introduction of Sarah Woodcock to Lord Baltimore. Baltimore was tried for rape in 1768 but was acquitted.
Calvert's daughter Frances Harford painted by George Romney in 1785Awards 1
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Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore, styled The Hon. Frederick Calvert until 1751, was a British landowner who was the last Baron Baltimore. Although he exercised almost feudal power in the Province of Maryland, he never once set foot in the colony, and unlike his father, he took little interest in politics, treating his estates, including Maryland, largely as sources of revenue to support his extravagant, often scandalous lifestyle. In 1768 he was accused of abduction and rape by Sarah Woodcock, a noted beauty who kept a milliner's shop at Tower Hill. The jury acquitted Calvert, but he left England soon afterwards, and never recovered from the public scandal that surrounded the trial. Dogged by the criticism and poor health, he contracted a fever and died in Naples at the age of 40.
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