Charles Calmady
Charles Biggs Calmady | |
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 Portrait of Charles Calmady in 1830, by Frederick Richard Say | |
| Born | c.1791 |
| Died | 1855 |
| Occupation | landowner |
Charles Biggs Calmady (1790/1 – 8 January 1855) was an English landowner and cricketer with amateur status.
Life
Charles Biggs Calmady was born c.1791, the son of Admiral Charles Holmes Calmady (born Everitt) and his wife Pollexfen née Calmady (married 8 September 1783 at Saint Nicholas Cole Abbey, London). He matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford in 1807, aged 16.[1][2]
Cricket
Calmady was associated with Marylebone Cricket Club and made his first-class cricket debut in 1828.[3]
Family
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Calmady married on 28 March 1816 at Hinton Ampner Emily Greenwood, of Brookwood Park, Bramdean, Hampshire; she was the daughter of William Greenwood, and sister of George Greenwood (1799–1875), author of Hints on Horsemanship,[4] and of John Greenwood.[5] Emily was an amateur artist, a friend of Frederick Christian Lewis. The celebrated double portrait of her two eldest daughters as young children resulted from a visit she made, on Lewis's advice, to the studio of Thomas Lawrence.[6]
The couple resided on the family estate Langdon Court, Devon, where they were both buried January 1855.[7]
They had children including:
- Vincent Pollexfen Calmady MFH, only son, born 1825.[4]
- Emily.
- Laura, died 1894 unmarried, suffragist and supporter of the RSPCA, NSPCC and Dartmoor Preservation Society.[8]
- Honora Mary, third daughter, married Sir John Augustus Hugh Boyd, 4th Baronet.[9]
- Cycill Christiana, fourth daughter, married in 1854 William Frederick Collier, second son of John Collier.[10]
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References
- ^ "England Marriages, 1538–1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKGP-D2T : 13 March 2020), Charles Holmes Everitt, 1783.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ "Charles Calmady". CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
- ^ a b "Mr. Vincent Pollexfen Calmady". Sporting Gazette. 24 February 1883. p. 16.
- ^ "Greenwood, John (GRNT818J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Baetjer, Katharine (2009). British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 215. ISBN 978-1-58839-348-7.
- ^ Plymouth & West Devon Record Office Collection
- ^ "-". Gentlewoman. 8 September 1894. p. 13.
- ^ "Obituary of Eminent Persons". Illustrated London News. 5 August 1876. p. 22.
- ^ "Married". John Bull. 11 March 1854. p. 16.
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