Frederick Baltimore Calvert - The Calvert Family

The Calvert Family

Frederick's father, Charles Calvert the elder, was born in 1754 and died on 13 June 1797; he is buried in St. Mary's churchyard, Manchester. Charles the elder would live in Oldham Street, Manchester during the winter and at Glossop Hall in the summer. Frederick's father's brother, Raisley Calvert, who died in 1794, was a sculptor, and is well known as the friend and admirer of William Wordsworth, to whom he bequeathed 900 pounds. Raisley had been to Cambridge University with Wordsworth and he looked after Raisley on his deathbed as he died of consumption. Other sons of Charles Calvert the elder and Frederick's uncles were Charles Calvert, Henry Calvert and Michael Pease Calvert, who were all painters. Michael was the youngest of eight children and he was born five months after his father's death in January 1798 in Derbyshire.

"Calvert! It must not be unheard by them

Who may respect my name, that I to thee

Owed many years of early liberty.

This care was thine when sickness did condemn

Thy youth to hopeless wasting, root and stem."

- William Wordsworth - referring to Raisley Calvert