CALVERT, Felix. b. 16 Oct. 1790; ensign 52 foot 1 Oct. 1807; major 32 foot 11 May 1815; lieut. col. 72 foot 9 Aug. 1821 to 25 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.; colonel 90 foot 14 June 1853 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 19 July 1831. d. 30 Cavendish sq. London 3 March 1857.
CALVERT, Frederic Baltimore (brother of Charles Calvert 1785–1852). b. 10 April 1793; alternated leading parts with Edmund Kean, Macready and Vandenhoff; elocutionary lecturer at King’s college, Aberdeen 1829; lectured in England and America on literary subjects; master of English language and literature in Edinburgh academy about 1846; lecturer on elocution to free church colleges of Edin. and Glasgow; author of A defence of the acted drama in a letter to T. Best, Hull 1822; Principles of elocution by T. Ewing, revised and improved 1852, another ed. 1870; translated Cicero’s De Oratore 1870. d. 2 West Newington, Edin. 21 April 1877.
CALVERT, Frederick Crace (son of Colonel Calvert). b. London 14 Nov. 1819; lived in France 1836–46; démonstrateur de chimie appliquée under M. E. Chevreul the eminent chemist in Paris 1841–6; consulting chemist at Manchester 1846; professor of chemistry at Royal Instit. Manchester 1846; lecturer on chemistry at School of medicine in Pine st. Manchester; the first person in this country to manufacture phenic or carbolic acid in a pure state, its use as a disinfectant is due entirely to him, established large works at Manchester for its production 1865; F.R.S.; delivered 5 courses of ‘Cantor’ lectures at Society of Arts on applied chemistry; contributed largely to English and French scientific literature. d. Clayton vale house near Manchester 24 Oct. 1873. F. C. Culvert’s Dying and calico printing, 3 ed. (1878) ix-xiv; Journal of Society of arts xxi, 919 (1873).
CALVERT, George. b. Denholme Gate, Thornton, parish of Bradford 26 Dec. 1809; decorative painter at Huddersfield; portrait painter at Almondbury; author of Universal restoration, a poem in ten epochs 2 vols. 1861; Thoughts for thoughtful minds 1865; Redemption, a poem in ten epochs, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1875. d. Hall Bower near Castle hill, Almondbury 10 June 1878. C. A. Hulbert’s Supplementary annals of Almondbury (1885) 51–3.
CALVERT, Henry Hunter. Clerk in R.N. 1834–5; cancelliere to consulate at Erzeroom, Turkish Armenia 1837–55; acting consul at Alexandria 1859–60, 1864, 1868–9, 1870, 1872, 1876–7 and 1878–9; acting consul at Cairo 1860–2, at Jeddah 1864–5 and 1867. d. the Dardanelles 29 July 1882. I.L.N. lxxxi, 197 (1882), portrait.
CALVERT, James Snowden. b. on the Borders of Scotland 13 July 1825; went to New South Wales 1840; went with Ludwig Leichhardt in his expedition from Moreton Bay Settlement to Fort Essington on north coast of Australia which was reached 17 Dec. 1845 after a journey of 3000 miles extending over 15 months; awarded a silver medal at London International Exhibition 1862 for his collection of Australian paper making materials. d. at his residence near Sydney 22 or 29 July 1874.
CALVERT, John. b. Preston; mechanical and consulting engineer; founded Calvert’s Mechanic’s almanac and workshop companion 1873, edited it 1873 to death; author of Calvert’s Pocket wages table 1875; Calvert’s Mechanic’s and builder’s time book, 2 ed. 1876. d. Cornbrook, Manchester 6 July 1883 aged 47.
CALVERT, Michael. b. Knaresborough; baptised 2 Feb. 1770; a chemist at Knaresborough, churchwarden 1808 and 1809; author of An account of the Knaresborough Spaw, 2 ed. 1831; History of Knaresborough 1844. d. Knaresborough 3 Dec. 1862. Boyne’s Yorkshire library 1869 p. 142.
CALVERT, Rev. William. b. 1819; Educ. at Pemb. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1853; C. of Longdon, Worcs. 1842–6; minor canon of St. Paul’s cathedral 1848 to death; R. of St. Antholin’s, city of London 1849–58; V. of St. John the Baptist’s, Kentish Town, London 1858 to death; author of The wife’s manual, or prayers, thoughts and songs on several occasions of a matron’s life 1854, 4 ed. 1882; Pneuma or the wandering soul, a parable in rhyme and outline 1856. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 1 Feb. 1880.
CAMDEN, George Charles Pratt, 2 Marquis (only son of 1 Marquis Camden 1759–1840). b. Arlington st. Piccadilly, London 2 May 1799; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1819, LLD. 1835; M.P. for Ludgershall, Wilts. 1821–6, for Bath 1826–30, and for Dunwich 1831–2; a lord of the Admiralty 19 Sep. 1828 to 15 July 1829; summoned to House of Lords in his father’s barony of Camden 8 Jany. 1835; succeeded as 2 Marquis 8 Oct. 1840; K.G. 19 Jany. 1846; lord lieut. of Brecknockshire 31 Oct. 1865; pres. of British archæological society, and of Kent archæological society. d. Bayham abbey, Sussex 6 Aug. 1866.