biography
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Baltimore, George Calvert, Baron
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1580–1632)
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| biography:
| English statesman and colonialist, born in Kiplin, North Yorkshire, N England, UK. He entered parliament in 1609, was knighted in 1617, and became secretary of state (1619–25). In 1625 he declared himself a Catholic, resigned his office, was created Baron Baltimore in the Irish peerage, and retired to his Irish estates. He then made plans to found a province in America, and after failing in Newfoundland and Virginia, applied for a charter further S, in what is now Maryland. He died before the grant was made final, and the patent passed to his son, Cecil Baltimore (c.1605–75). |
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