Editing Leonard Calvert (section)

{{short description|First governor of Maryland colony (1606-1647)}}
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{{Infobox governor
| honorific_prefix    = [[The Honourable]]
| name                = Leonard Calvert
| image               = Leonard Calvert, by Jacob Van Oost I or II (1640).jpg
| caption             = Portrait by [[Jacob van Oost]] or his son, [[Jacob van Oost the Younger]], {{circa|1640}}.
| office              = 1st [[List of colonial governors of Maryland|Proprietary-Governor of Maryland]]
| term_start          = 1634
| term_end            = 1647
| predecessor         = Inaugural holder
| successor           = [[Thomas Greene (governor)|Thomas Greene]]
| constituency        = 
| majority            = 
| birth_date          = {{circa|1606}}
| birth_place         = [[England]]
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|1647|06|09|1606||}}
| death_place         = [[Province of Maryland|Maryland Colony]]
| party               = 
| relations           = 
| spouse              = 
| children            = {{hlist|William<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Nicklin |first1=John Bailey Calvert |title=Descendants of Francis Calvert |journal=Maryland Historical Magazine |date=1930 |volume=25 |issue=1 |page=31}}</ref>|Anne}}
| parents             = [[George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore]] (father) and Anne Mynne (mother)
| occupation          = [[Placeman]], [[planter class|planter]]
| signature           = Signature of Leonard Calvert (1606–1647).png
| footnotes           = 
}}

'''Leonard Calvert''' ({{born in|{{circa|1606}}}} – {{died in|June 9, 1647}}) was the first [[Lord proprietor|proprietary governor]] of the [[Province of Maryland]].<ref name="Maryland State Archives">{{cite web |url=http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/000100/000198/html/198bio.html |title=Leonard Calvert ''MSA SC 3520-198'' |publisher=Maryland State Archives |date=March 7, 2003}}</ref> He was the second son of [[George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore|The 1st Baron Baltimore]] (1579–1632), the first proprietor of Maryland. His elder brother [[Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore|Cecil]] (1605–1675), who inherited the colony and the title upon the death of their father George, April 15, 1632, appointed Leonard as governor of the [[Province of Maryland|Colony]] in his absence.