Nicholson Calvert (1764-1841)

Nicolson Calvert (15 May 1764 – 13 April 1841)[1] was an English Whig politician.

Life

The son of Felix Calvert, a brewer from Southwark and Hunsdon, he was educated at Harrow School and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[2] In 1789 he married Frances Pery, daughter and co-heir of the 1st Viscount Pery, a powerful politician from Limerick in Ireland.[2] They had six sons and two daughters. Their son, Felix (d. 1862), fought at the Battle of Waterloo[3] while their second daughter Isabella (1793–1862) married Sir James Stronge, Bt.[4] They lived at Hunsdon House in Hertfordshire, which he inherited from his uncle (also named Nicolson Calvert).[5] His granddaughter Flora Louisa Calvert married Lt Col. Alfred Tippinge,[6] and his great granddaughter Helena was the wife of Arthur Irwin Dasent.[7]

Career

He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Hertford from 1802 to 1826, and for the county of Hertfordshire from 1826 to 1834.[2] He commanded the Eastern Battalion, Hertfordshire Local Militia, when it was raised at Hertford in 1808.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 3)
  2. 1 2 3 Fisher, David R. (2009). D.R. Fisher (ed.). "CALVERT, Nicolson (1764-1841), of Hunsdon House, nr. Ware and Furneux Pelham, nr. Bishop's Stortford, Herts". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
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  4. ↑ Lundy, Darryl. "Isabella Calvert". ThePeerage.com. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  5. ↑ Neale, John Preston; Moule, Thomas (1822). Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Vol. 1. Sherwood, Jones and Company. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  6. ↑ "Recently proved wills". Hampshire Independent. British Newspaper Archive. 14 January 1899. p. 4 col.8. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  7. ↑ Burke's Landed Gentry, 13th edition, ed. A. Winton Thorpe, 1921, p. 525
  8. ↑ Maj J.H. Busby, 'Local Military Forces in Hertfordshire 1793–1814', Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol 31, No 125 (Spring 1953), pp. 15–24.


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