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George Calvert , 1er baron Baltimore, est un homme politique anglais.

Il occupe de hauts emplois sous Jacques Ier d'Angleterre et devient membre du conseil privé, puis ministre d'État .

En 1619, afin de le récompenser pour les services rendus Jacques Ier lui octroyait une propriété de 9,3 km² dans le Comté de Longford en Irlande qui fut baptisée Baltimore Manor avec le titre de baron.Baltimore étant également le nom d'une ville côtière au sud-ouest de l'Irlande dans le Comté de Cork

Ayant embrassé le catholicisme, il se démet de ses charges , et part former un établissement à Terre-Neuve sous Jacques Ier.

Obligé de l'abandonner à cause des incursions des Français, il obtient de Charles Ier d'Angleterre la concession de terres situées au nord de la Virginie, qui forment aujourd'hui le Maryland. Il est le père de Cecilius Calvert et Leonard Calvert. Wikipedia  

✵ 1578 – 15. avril 1632
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George Calvert: Citations en anglais

“I had rather be esteemed a Fool for some by the Hazard of one Month's journey, than to prove myself one certainly for six Years by past, if the Business be now lost for some want of a little Pains and Care.”

To Thomas Wentworth, cited by Luca Codignola in The Coldest Harbour of the Land (Québec, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988), p. 43.
Contexte: [B]eing bound for a long Journey to a Place which I have had a long Desire to visit, and have now the Opportunity and Leave to do: It is Newfoundland I mean, which imports me more than in Curiosity only to see; for I must either go and settle it in a better Order than it is, or else give it over, and lose all the Charges I have been at hitherto for other Men to build their Fortunes upon. And I had rather be esteemed a Fool for some by the Hazard of one Month's journey, than to prove myself one certainly for six Years by past, if the Business be now lost for some want of a little Pains and Care.

“I intend shortly, God willing, a journey for Newfoundland to visit a plantation which I began there some few years since.”

To Secretary of State Sir John Coke, cited by John D. Krugler in English & Catholic: The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 16 August 2004).

“[T]hus your Lordship hoe know is life and is my baby." sees that we Papists want not Charity towards you Protestants, whatsoever the less understanding Part of the World think of us.”

To Thomas Wentworth, cited by John D. Krugler in English & Catholic: The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 16 August 2004).