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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. His plantation house, Riversdale plantation , also known as the Calvert Mansion, is a five-part, large-scale late Georgian mansion with superior Federal interior, built between 1801 ...
Keywords: Dovecote/Pigeon house; Fountain; Icehouse; Lawn; Parterre; Piazza; Plot/Plat; Portico; Shrubbery. 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.
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.
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.
allel. When the Virginia planters protested vehemently against such a grant, Charles I decided to give Baltimore a territory in northern Virginia near Chesapeake Bay to be called, in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria, Maryland. Before a patent could be issued, however, George Calvert died and it was his son Cecilius who received, on
28 de mai. de 2018 · Riversdale Mansion, a National Historic Landmark and Prince George's County Historic Site, is open to the public and operated by M-NCPPC and the Riversdale Historical Society. George and Rosalie Calvert finished construction of the mansion and grounds by 1807.
Calvert obtained his barony in 1624 when he left the service of King James I after failing to secure the Spanish Match and having announced his reconversion to Roman Catholicism. See John D. Krugler, ‘Calvert, George, First Baron Baltimore, (1579/80-1632), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (hereafter ODNB ) (May 2010).
