only confirmed) illegitimate son, Henry Harford, then aged just 13. This was done against the wishes of his family, though Calvert did provide for cash bequests to his sisters, specifically £20,000 to be divided between Louisa and Caroline. The colony, perhaps grateful to be rid of Frederick at last, duly recognised Harford as Calvert's heir. However, the will was challenged by the family of Calvert's sister, Louisa Calvert Browning, who did not recognise Harford's inheritance. Before the case could grind its way through the Court of Chancery, events in America changed Maryland forever. Unfortunately for the young Henry, by the time he had reached adulthood, Maryland had become engulfed by the American Revolution, and by 1776 was at war with Britain. Henry Harford ultimately lost almost all his colonial possessions, though he remained wealthy due to his extensive inheritance in Great Britain. Reputation and legacy Calvert was not generally well-regarded by his contemporaries. One characterised him as "Feeble in body, conceited, frivolous, and dissipated, but withal generous and sympathetic ... [a man] who gave himself up to a life of pleasure". Another described him as "a disreputable and dissolute degenerate". Posterity has been little kinder to his reputation. Some have said that Frederick County, Maryland, is named after the last Baron Baltimore, but this remains unproven. The official flag of the State of Maryland, uniquely among the 50 states, bears witness to his family legacy. Published works A tour to the East, in the years 1763 and 1764: with Remarks on the City of Constantinople and the Turks. Also Select Pieces of Oriental Wit, Poetry and Wisdom, London (1767). Gaudia poetica Latina, Anglica, et Gallica Lingua Composita, London (1770). See also Baron Baltimore History of Maryland in the American Revolution Province of Maryland Arms References Andrews, Matthew Page, History of Maryland, Doubleday Doran & Co, New York City (1929) Cross, Anthony, By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth-Century Russia, Cambridge University Press (2007). Retrieved 24 January 2010 Flynn, Carolo Houlihan, p. 55, The body in Swift and Defoe. Retrieved 26 January 2010 Lamb, Susan, Bringing Travel Home to England: Tourism, Gender, and Imaginative Literature in the Eighteenth Century, University of Delaware Press, (2009). Retrieved 24 January 2010 Russell, George, p. 9, The Ark and the Dove Adventurers.. Retrieved 28 January 2010 Shearer, Benjamin F., p. 546, The Uniting States: Louisiana