caption residence relations death_date successor death_place birth_place office birth_date term_start spouse image article_title term_end name occupation
benedict five years after his marriage to elizabeth calvert . collection swingate of the baltimore museum of art . calvert painted by john wollaston c1753 , mount airy charles frederick calvert , 6th baron baltimore -lrb- half brother -rrb- calvert henry harford , 5th proprietor governor of maryland -lrb- nephew , -rrb- george i of great britain -lrb- grandfather -rrb- 5th baron baltimore -lrb- father -rrb- january 9 , 1788 st george peale maryland england judge of the land office c1730-32 1755 elizabeth calvert benedict swingate calvert.jpg benedict swingate calvert
 may 13 , 1777 benedict swingate calvert politician , planter politician , planter
benedict swingate calvert

benedict swingate calvert -lrb- january 27 , 1722 -- january 9 , 1788 -rrb- was a planter , politician and a loyalist in maryland during the american revolution .
he was the son of charles calvert , 5th baron baltimore , the third proprietor governor of maryland -lrb- 1699 -- 1751 -rrb- , and may have been the grandson of king george i of great britain .
his mother 's identity is not known , though one source suggests melusina von der schulenburg , countess of walsingham .
as he was illegitimate , he was not able to inherit his father 's title or estates , which passed instead to his half brother frederick calvert , 6th baron baltimore -lrb- 1731 -- 1771 -rrb- .
benedict calvert spent most of his life as a politician and planter in maryland , though frederick , by contrast , never visited the colony .
calvert became wealthy through proprietarial patronage and became an important colonial official , but he would lose his offices and his political power , though not his land and wealth , during the american revolution .
