Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Baltimore, George Calvert, Lord

BALTIMORE, GEORGE CALVERT, LORD, an English colonist, born in Yorkshire about 1580; was for some time Secretary of State to James I., but this post he resigned in 1624 in consequence of having become a Roman Catholic. He retained the confidence of the King, who, in 1625, raised him to the Irish peerage. He had previously obtained a grant of land in Newfoundland, but left it, obtaining another patent for Maryland. He died (1632) before the charter was completed, and it was granted to his son, Cecil.