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George Calvert (February 2, 1768 – January 28, 1838), was a plantation owner and slaveholder in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Maryland.
Riversdale was the plantation of the Belgian émigré Rosalie Stier Calvert (1778–1821) and her husband, George Calvert (1768–1838), a planter and direct descendent of the Proprietary Governors of Maryland.
As one of the grandees of Prince George’s County, Maryland, George Calvert was expected by his peers to perform public duties. He was duly offered offices, or the chance to run for them, and often more prestigious ones than most of his neighbors.
- Steven Sarson
- 2013
Four years later, Stier returned to Belgium, leaving the unfinished Riversdale to be completed by his daughter, Rosalie Stier Calvert and her husband, George Calvert, the son of Benedict Swingate Calvert, who was a natural son of The 5th Baron Baltimore.
6 The Calvert family of Riversdale plantation in Prince George’s County, Maryland, exemplify the great planters of the early national Chesapeake. George Calvert, born in 1768, was the son of Benedict Swingate Calvert (c.1724-1788), the illegitimate but well-provided-for son of Charles Calvert, the fifth Lord Baltimore.
George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (/ ˈ b ɔː l t ɪ m ɔːr /; 1580 – 15 April 1632) was an English peer and politician. He achieved domestic political success as a member of parliament and later Secretary of State under King James I.
Riversdale, an elegant Federal style plantation house, was constructed between 1801 and 1807 for Henri Stier, a Flemish aristocrat, and completed by his daughter Rosalie and her husband George Calvert.
