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The Hon. Leonard Calvert (1606 – June 9, 1647) was the first proprietary governor of the Province of Maryland. He was the second son of The 1st Baron Baltimore (1579–1632), the first proprietor of Maryland. His elder brother Cecil (1605–1675), who inherited the colony and the title upon the death of
Leonard Calvert, the younger brother of Cecilius, was appointed the governor of the new colony and set sail with three hundred colonists on two ships, the Ark and the Dove. They arrived at St. Mary’s, Maryland on March 27, 1634. The first group of colonists was composed of both Catholics, including Jesuit priests, and Protestants.
Leonard Calvert, the first colonial governor of Maryland, is the subject of this twentieth-century painting by Florence Mackubin. Mackubin might have based the painting on a seventeenth-century portrait of Calvert by an unknown artist.
Calvert Marine Museum. 14200 Solomons Island Road, Solomons, MD 20688. Phone: 410-326-2042. Rich maritime history, local fossils and aquariums of life in the Chesapeake Bay come alive in the only museum on the East Coast that is home to two lighthouses. See skates and rays, hand-crafted model boats, marine engines, wood carvings, aquariums ...
Proprietary Governor of Maryland, 1634-1647, born in England, 1607; died in Maryland, 9 June, 1647. He was the second son of George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore. In 1629 he was sent to Newfoundland in charge of a vessel to protect the colony of Avalon against the depredations of French cruisers. In 1633, his brother, the second Lord Baltimore ...
Title: Leonard Calvert (1606-1647) Artist: Florence Mackubin (1861-1918) Thought to be after a seventeenth-century portrait by unknown artist (private collection) Date: 1914. Medium: Oil on canvas. Accession number: MSA SC 1545-1106. Presented to the state of Maryland by The Society of The Ark and the Dove in 1914.
MSA SC 1545-1106. Leonard Calvert, Maryland's first colonial governor, was born in England circa 1606. His father, Sir George Calvert, received the title, Baron of Baltimore, from King James I of England, and thus became 1st Lord Baltimore in February 1625. When George died on April 15, 1632, Leonard's brother, Cecilius Calvert, succeeded to ...
