Charles Calvert (governor)

Charles Calvert
Captain Charles Calvert, Governor of Maryland. Painting by John Wollaston. Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Governor of Maryland
In office
1720–1727
Preceded byThomas Brooke
Succeeded byBenedict Leonard Calvert
Surveyor General to the Western Shore
In office
1726 – c. 1733
Commissary General[1]
In office
1727–1728
Personal details
Born1688
England
DiedFebruary 2, 1734(1734-02-02) (aged 45–46)
Maryland
SpouseRebecca Gerard
Children3, including Elizabeth Calvert
OccupationMilitary officer, colonial administrator, planter

Captain Charles Calvert (born Charles Calvert Lazenby; c. 1688 – February 2, 1734) was a British Army officer, colonial administrator and planter who served as the governor of Maryland from 1720 to 1727 at a time when the Calvert family had recently regained control of the Province of Maryland. He was appointed governor by his cousin Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, who in 1721 came into his inheritance over the colony.

Calvert worked to reassert the Proprietary interest against the privileges of the colonists as set out in the Maryland Charter, and to ease tensions between the Lords Baltimore and their Maryland subjects. Religious tension, which had been a source of great division in the colony, was much reduced under his governorship. Calvert was replaced as governor in 1727 by his cousin Benedict Leonard Calvert, though he continued to occupy other colonial offices.[2] He suffered from early senility and died in 1734.


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