Nicolson Calvert (1764–1841)

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Nicolson Calvert (15 May 1764 – 13 April 1841){{Rayment-hc|h|3|date=June 2014}} 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.{{cite web

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| first1 = David R.

| title = CALVERT, Nicolson (1764-1841), of Hunsdon House, nr. Ware and Furneux Pelham, nr. Bishop's Stortford, Herts

| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/calvert-nicolson-1764-1841

| work = The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832

| editor = D.R. Fisher

| publisher = Cambridge University Press

| accessdate = 4 June 2014

| year = 2009

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In 1789 he married Frances Pery, daughter and co-heir of the 1st Viscount Pery, a powerful politician from Limerick in Ireland. They had six sons and two daughters. Their son, Felix (d. 1862), fought at the Battle of Waterloo*{{cite book |last=Dalton |first=Charles |year=1904 |title=The Waterloo roll call. With biographical notes and anecdotes |location=London |publisher= Eyre and Spottiswoode |url=https://archive.org/details/waterloorollcall00daltuoft|page=[https://archive.org/details/waterloorollcall00daltuoft/page/146 146]}} while their second daughter Isabella (1793–1862) married Sir James Stronge, Bt.{{cite web| url = http://www.thepeerage.com/p58684.htm#i586840| title = Isabella Calvert| work = ThePeerage.com| last = Lundy| first = Darryl| accessdate = 4 June 2014}} They lived at Hunsdon House in Hertfordshire, which he inherited from his uncle (also named Nicolson Calvert).{{cite book| title = Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0JEZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT86| volume = 1| last1 = Neale| first1 = John Preston| first2 = Thomas| last2 = Moule| publisher = Sherwood, Jones and Company| year = 1822| accessdate = 5 June 2014}} His granddaughter Flora Louisa Calvert married Lt Col. Alfred Tippinge,{{cite news |title=Recently proved wills |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002941/18990114/077/0004 |access-date=3 May 2021 |work=Hampshire Independent |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=14 January 1899 |page=4 col.8}} and his great granddaughter Helena was the wife of Arthur Irwin Dasent.Burke's Landed Gentry, 13th edition, ed. A. Winton Thorpe, 1921, p. 525

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. He commanded the Eastern Battalion, Hertfordshire Local Militia, when it was raised at Hertford in 1808.[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44222686 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.]