Lord Baltimore, furious at his son's conversion, withdrew his annual allowance of £450 and ended his support for his grandchildren's education and maintenance. However, Charles Calvert died in 1715, passing his title, and his claim to Maryland, to his son Benedict. Benedict is buried in the churchyard of St Pancras Old Church in London. Legacy Upon his father's death, Charles' son, Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore, petitioned King George I, (1660–1727), for the restoration of his family's proprietarial title to Maryland. Unfortunately, before the king could rule on the petition, Benedict died, just two months after his father, passing on his title in turn to his son Charles. On May 15, 1715, Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore soon found himself, at age sixteen, in the fortunate position of having had his family's proprietarial title to Maryland restored by the King. In 1721, he came of age and assumed personal control of the Colony, which would remain under the control of the Calvert family until 1776 and the American Revolution. Charles County, Maryland, was named after him. Charles Calvert's very large full-length portrait, along with those of all the other Lords Baltimore (collected by philanthropist Hugh Young), all still hang today in the skylighted Great Hall of the central Enoch Pratt Free Library on Cathedral Street in downtown Baltimore, the city that bears his family name (along with several others usually with the prefix of "New" attached across America), along with frequent historical and ceremonial commemorations of the colonial proprietors. See also Baron Baltimore Colonial families of Maryland List of colonial governors of Maryland Province of Maryland Notes References Bolton, Charles Knowles, The Founders: Portraits of Persons Born Abroad, Volume 1 Retrieved October 2010 Brugger, Robert J., Maryland, a Middle Temperament 1634-1980 Retrieved July 26, 2010 Chapelle, Suzanne Ellery Greene, Maryland: A History of Its People Retrieved August 10, 2010 Hoffman, Ronald, ''Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782 Retrieved Jan 24 2010 Yentsch, Anne E, A Chesapeake Family and their Slaves: a Study in Historical Archaeology, Cambridge University Press (1994) Retrieved Jan 2010 External links 1637 births 1715 deaths 17th-century American people 18th-century American people Barons Baltimore Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore Colonial Governors of Maryland English Roman Catholics