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GEORGE CALVERT

George Calvert (first Baron Baltimore, Lord Baltimore) was an English statesman and the founder of the colony of Maryland. He was born in 1580 at Kipling, Yorkshire and died in 1632. He entered parliament in 1609 and was secretary of state from 1619 until 1625 when he resigned on becoming a Roman Catholic and was raised to the peerage as the first Baron Baltimore, Baltimore being a fishing village in Cork, Ireland.
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