Barons of Baltimore and Lords Proprietary of
Maryland.

GEORGE CALVERT, First Lord Baltimore.

Lords Proprietary.

1632—Caecilius Calvert, Second Lord Baltimore.
1675—Charles Calvert, Third Lord Baltimore.
1715—Benedict Leonard Calvert, Fourth Lord Baltimore.
1715—Charles Calvert, Fifth Lord Baltimore.
1751—Frederick Calvert, Sixth and Last Lord Baltimore.
1771 to 1776—Henry Harford, Last Proprietary.

A List of Those Who Governed Maryland
Before 1776.

COMPILED BY BERNARD C. STEINER.
Of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.

1. William Glaibome, under a trading commission dated May- 16, 1631,
(3 Md. Arch. Coun. 20), settled at Kent Island August 17, 1631
(3 Md. Arch. Coun. 32), and governed it under the authority
of Virginia.

2. Leonard Calvert, commissioned by his brother, Caecilius Calvert, sec-
ond Lord Baltimore and first Lord Proprietary of Maryland,
—, 1633; given instructions as ' ' Deputy Governor ' ' Novem-
ber 13, 1633 (Calvert Papers, i. 131) ; arrived in Maryland with
colonists March 25, 1634; recommissioned April 15, 1637 (3 Md.
Arch. Coun. 49), as "Lieutenant General, Admiral, Chief Cap-
tain and Commander," September 4, 1642 (3 Md. Arch. Conn.
109), and September 6, 1644 (3 Md. Arch. Conn. 152); deposed
in February, 1645. During absences from the Province he left
the following persons in charge of the government: April I,
1638 (he went to Virginia for a short time), Mr. John Lewger,
the Secretary (3 Md. Arch. Coun. 71; Lewger had been left in
charge of affairs at St. Mary's when Calvert went to Kent Island
in February, 1637-8, 3 Md. Arch. Conn. 64); May 27, 1638, to
August 14, 1638, Captain Thomas Comwalleys (3 Md. Arch.
Conn 74, 4 Md. Arch. Prov. Ct. 41); May 8, 1641, to July 10,
1641 (he went to Virginia), Captain Thomas Comwalleys (3 Md.