Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore

The Right Honourable The Lord Baltimore
Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore
Personal details
Born	6 February 1731 Epsom, Surrey, England
Died	September 4, 1771(1771-09-04) (aged 40) Naples, Italy
Spouse(s)	Lady Diana Egerton, numerous mistresses
Relations	Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore (grandfather), Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore (father), Henry Harford (son)
Children	Henry Harford (1758–1834) Francis Mary Harford (1759–1822) Sophia Hales (born c.1765) Elizabeth Hales (born c.1765) Charlotte Hope, born 1770
Residence	Woodcote Park, Epsom, Surrey.
Occupation	Politician, writer
Religion	Anglican

Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore (February 6, 1731 – September 4, 1771) was an English nobleman and last in the line of Barons Baltimore. Although he exercised almost feudal power in the Province of Maryland, he never once set foot in the colony and, unlike his father, he took little interest in politics, treating his estates, including Maryland, largely as sources of revenue to support his extravagant and often scandalous lifestyle. In 1768 he was accused of abduction and rape by Sarah Woodcock, a noted beauty who kept a milliner's shop at Tower Hill. The jury acquitted Calvert but he left England soon afterwards, and never recovered from the public scandal which surrounded the trial. Dogged by criticism and poor health, he contracted a fever and died in Naples at the age of 40.

Frederick Calvert was born in 1731, the eldest son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, 3rd Proprietor Governor of Maryland (1699–1751). He was named after his godfather, Frederick, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of George II, and father of George III. The young Frederick was sent to Eton College to be educated, where he acquired some proficiency in the classics. Calvert had two sisters, the Hon. Caroline Calvert, born circa. 1745, and the Hon. Louisa Calvert.

In 1751 Charles Calvert died, and Frederick, aged just 20, inherited from his father the title Baron Baltimore and the Proprietary Governorship of the Province of Maryland, becoming at once both a wealthy nobleman in England and a powerful figure in America. Maryland was then a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain, administered directly by the Calverts. Frederick benefited from an income of around £10,000 a month (equal to £1,417,034 today) from taxes and rents, an immense sum at the time. In addition he controlled shares in the Bank of England, and an estate at Woodcote Park, in Surrey.