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'''Charles Biggs Calmady''' (5 February 1791 – 8 January 1855)<ref name="WA">{{cite book |title=The Western Antiquary, Or, Devon and Cornwall Note Book |date=1890 |publisher=Latimer & son |page=179 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sttRAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA179 |language=en}}</ref> was an English landowner and [[cricket]]er with [[Amateur status in first-class cricket#Distinction between amateurs and professionals|amateur status]].
'''Charles Biggs Calmady''' (5 February 1791 – 8 January 1855)<ref name="WA">{{cite book |title=The Western Antiquary, Or, Devon and Cornwall Note Book |date=1890 |publisher=Latimer & son |page=179 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sttRAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA179 |language=en}}</ref> was an English landowner and [[cricket]]er with [[Amateur status in first-class cricket#Distinction between amateurs and professionals|amateur status]].


==Life==
==Life==
He was 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). This was his mother's second marriage: she had previously been married to her cousin Warwick Calmady, who had died. She was the daughter of Francis Vincent Calmady. She was also co-heiress of her brother Francis John Calmady.<ref>"England Marriages, 1538–1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKGP-D2T : 13 March 2020), Charles Holmes Everitt, 1783.</ref><ref name="Lysons">{{cite book |last1=Lysons |first1=Daniel |title=Magna Britannia; Being A Concise Topographical Account Of The Several Counties Of Great Britain: Devonshire. 6 |date=1822 |publisher=Thomas Cadell |page=cxxxvii|volume=VI |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wkBaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR137 |language=en}}</ref> Everitt had been wrecked off [[Ushant]] as captain of [[HMS Arethusa (1759)|HMS ''Arethusa'']] in 1779.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schomberg |first1=Isaac |title=Naval Chronology |date=1815 |publisher=T. Egerton |page=456 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YPRDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA456 |language=en}}</ref> He commanded [[HMS Solebay (1763)|HMS ''Solebay'']] at the [[Battle of Saint Kitts]] in 1782, burning it when driven aground on [[Nevis]] by French attacks. The wreck has been investigated from 2010 by Chris Cartellone.<ref>{{cite web |title=ShipLAB Research Portfolio PDF Free Download |url=https://hobbydocbox.com/Art_and_Technology/71807762-Shiplab-research-portfolio-2015.html |website=hobbydocbox.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Mapping History: Revolutionary War Era Wreck Explored by New York Students |url=https://www.scubadiving.com/travel/st-kitts-and-nevis/mapping-history-revolutionary-war-era-wreck-explored-new-york-students |work=Scuba Diving |language=en}}</ref> His change of surname to Calmady took place in 1788.<ref name="Lysons"/>
He was 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). This was his mother's second marriage: she had previously been married to her cousin Warwick Calmady, who had died. She was the daughter of Francis Vincent Calmady. She was also co-heiress of her brother Francis John Calmady.<ref>"England Marriages, 1538–1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKGP-D2T : 13 March 2020), Charles Holmes Everitt, 1783.</ref><ref name="Lysons">{{cite book |last1=Lysons |first1=Daniel |title=Magna Britannia; Being A Concise Topographical Account Of The Several Counties Of Great Britain: Devonshire. 6 |date=1822 |publisher=Thomas Cadell |page=cxxxvii|volume=VI |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wkBaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR137 |language=en}}</ref> Everitt had been wrecked off [[Ushant]] as captain of [[HMS Arethusa (1759)|HMS ''Arethusa'']] in 1779.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schomberg |first1=Isaac |title=Naval Chronology |date=1815 |publisher=T. Egerton |page=456 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YPRDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA456 |language=en}}</ref> He commanded [[HMS Solebay (1763)|HMS ''Solebay'']] at the [[Battle of Saint Kitts]] in 1782, burning it when driven aground on [[Nevis]] by French attacks. The wreck has been investigated from 2010 by Chris Cartellone.<ref>{{cite web |title=ShipLAB Research Portfolio PDF Free Download |url=https://hobbydocbox.com/Art_and_Technology/71807762-Shiplab-research-portfolio-2015.html |website=hobbydocbox.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Mapping History: Revolutionary War Era Wreck Explored by New York Students |url=https://www.scubadiving.com/travel/st-kitts-and-nevis/mapping-history-revolutionary-war-era-wreck-explored-new-york-students |work=Scuba Diving |language=en}}</ref> His change of surname to Calmady took place in 1788.<ref name="Lysons"/>


His father having died in March 1807, Calmady matriculated at [[Oriel College, Oxford]] in July of that year, aged 16.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Clarke |first1=James Stanier |last2=McArthur |first2=John |title=The Naval Chronicle: Volume 17, January-July 1807: Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects |date=2 September 2010 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-01856-2 |page=263 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DXDK4sSI5r4C&pg=PA263 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{alox2|title=Calmady, Charles Biggs}}</ref> Lysons (1822) gave his residence as Holne Chace, on [[Dartmoor]].<ref name="Lysons"/> His mother died aged 73 in 1828 at [[Langdon Court, Devon|Langdon Hall]], [[Devon]], the family seat in the parish of [[Wembury]], about {{convert|5|miles}} from [[Plymouth]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Died |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001286/18280317/062/0007 |work=Bell's Weekly Messenger |date=17 March 1828|page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Neale |first1=John Preston |title=Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland |date=1821 |publisher=Sherwood, Jones and Company |page=37 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=d5EZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP37 |language=en}}</ref> She had bought West Wembury farm, from the Lockyer family, and owned also the [[barton (demesne)|barton]] at [[Down Thomas]], where the [[estate (land)|manor]] belonged to [[Edmund Pollexfen Bastard]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lysons |first1=Daniel |title=Magna Britannia; Being A Concise Topographical Account Of The Several Counties Of Great Britain: Devonshire. 6 |date=1822 |publisher=Thomas Cadell |page=550|volume=VI part 2 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-EBaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA550 |language=en}}</ref>
His father having died in March 1807, Calmady matriculated at [[Oriel College, Oxford]] in July of that year, aged 16.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Clarke |first1=James Stanier |last2=McArthur |first2=John |title=The Naval Chronicle: Volume 17, January-July 1807: Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects |date=2 September 2010 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-01856-2 |page=263 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DXDK4sSI5r4C&pg=PA263 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{alox2|title=Calmady, Charles Biggs}}</ref> Lysons (1822) gave his residence as Holne Chace, on [[Dartmoor]].<ref name="Lysons"/> His mother died aged 73 in 1828 at [[Langdon Court, Devon|Langdon Hall]], [[Devon]], the family seat in the parish of [[Wembury]], about {{convert|5|miles}} from [[Plymouth]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Died |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001286/18280317/062/0007 |work=Bell's Weekly Messenger |date=17 March 1828|page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Neale |first1=John Preston |title=Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland |date=1821 |publisher=Sherwood, Jones and Company |page=37 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d5EZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP37 |language=en}}</ref> She had bought West Wembury farm, from the Lockyer family, and owned also the [[barton (demesne)|barton]] at [[Down Thomas]], where the [[estate (land)|manor]] belonged to [[Edmund Pollexfen Bastard]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lysons |first1=Daniel |title=Magna Britannia; Being A Concise Topographical Account Of The Several Counties Of Great Britain: Devonshire. 6 |date=1822 |publisher=Thomas Cadell |page=550|volume=VI part 2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-EBaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA550 |language=en}}</ref>
[[File:Neale(1818) p1.220 - Langdon Hall, Devonshire.jpg|thumb|left|Langdon Hall, Devon, 1818 engraving]]
[[File:Neale(1818) p1.220 - Langdon Hall, Devonshire.jpg|thumb|left|Langdon Hall, Devon, 1818 engraving]]
Calmady promoted West of England colonising schemes.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Turnbull Library Record |date=1967 |publisher=Friends of the Turnbull Library. |page=43 |language=en}}</ref> During 1839 John George Cooke (1819–1880) heard from Calmady and [[Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet]] of their interest in a "New Plymouth" project of settlement in New Zealand.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Connor |first1=Helene |title=On Becoming “Colonially Bitten”. The Reminiscences of John George Cooke and his Sojourn to Aotearoa New Zealand, 1841 – 1850 |journal=Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies |date=2021 |issue=25.1 |page=6}}</ref>
Calmady promoted West of England colonising schemes.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Turnbull Library Record |date=1967 |publisher=Friends of the Turnbull Library. |page=43 |language=en}}</ref> During 1839 John George Cooke (1819–1880) heard from Calmady and [[Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet]] of their interest in a "New Plymouth" project of settlement in New Zealand.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Connor |first1=Helene |title=On Becoming "Colonially Bitten". The Reminiscences of John George Cooke and his Sojourn to Aotearoa New Zealand, 1841 – 1850 |journal=Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies |date=2021 |volume=25 |issue=1 |page=6}}</ref>
Around 1840 Calmady became involved with the [[New Zealand Company]], sitting on its West of England Board.<ref>{{cite book |last1=New Zealand Company |title=Latest Information from the Settlement of New Plymouth, on the Coast of Taranake, New Zealand: Comprising Letters from Settlers There; with an Account of Its General Products, Agricultural and Commercial Capabilities, &c |date=1842 |publisher=Smith, Elder |location=53 |isbn=978-1-927279-40-3 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-5JeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA53 |language=en}}</ref> His brother-in-law Robert Greenwood (died 1889) emigrated to New Zealand in 1850, having turned down an offer to go in 1841 with Cooke on the ''[[New Zealand Company ships#Amelia Thompson|Amelia Thompson]].'' He named Calmady Terrace in [[New Plymouth]] after his sister Emily.<ref>{{cite journal |title=John George Cooke and his Literary Connections|journal=Turnbull Library Record|date=1 October 1969 |volume=2 |issue=2.1 |page=46 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/TLR19691001.2.4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland |date=1875 |publisher=H. Colburn |page=544 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZNEKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA544 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The Late Mr Robert Greenwood |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TH18890925.2.12.1 |work=Taranaki Herald|volume=XXXVIII|issue=8586|date=25 September 1889|page=2}}</ref>
Around 1840 Calmady became involved with the [[New Zealand Company]], sitting on its West of England Board.<ref>{{cite book |last1=New Zealand Company |title=Latest Information from the Settlement of New Plymouth, on the Coast of Taranake, New Zealand: Comprising Letters from Settlers There; with an Account of Its General Products, Agricultural and Commercial Capabilities, &c |date=1842 |publisher=Smith, Elder |location=53 |isbn=978-1-927279-40-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-5JeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA53 |language=en}}</ref> His brother-in-law Robert Greenwood (died 1889) emigrated to New Zealand in 1850, having turned down an offer to go in 1841 with Cooke on the ''[[New Zealand Company ships#Amelia Thompson|Amelia Thompson]].'' He named Calmady Terrace in [[New Plymouth]] after his sister Emily.<ref>{{cite journal |title=John George Cooke and his Literary Connections|journal=Turnbull Library Record|date=1 October 1969 |volume=2 |issue=1 |page=46 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/TLR19691001.2.4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland |date=1875 |publisher=H. Colburn |page=544 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZNEKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA544 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The Late Mr Robert Greenwood |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TH18890925.2.12.1 |work=Taranaki Herald|volume=XXXVIII|issue=8586|date=25 September 1889|page=2}}</ref>


The president or chairman of the Free Trade Association of the 1840s in Plymouth, Calmady supported the [[repeal of the Corn Laws]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Plymouth Free Trade Association |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000082/18441002/015/0004 |work=Morning Chronicle |date=2 October 1844|page=4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Examiner |date=1845 |publisher=John Hunt |page=809 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Hn8bJ1rl8YcC&pg=PA809 |language=en}}</ref> He stood for election as a Liberal in 1847, in the Free Trade interest, in {{constlk|Plymouth}}, a constituency which returned two members to parliament.<ref>{{cite book |title=Gardeners' Chronicle |date=1847 |publisher=Haymarket Publishing |page=170 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MTA1AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA170 |language=en}}</ref> In debate with [[Richard Crowder]] in Plymouth on 15 July at a noisy meeting, Calmady announced political principles, including broader suffrage and the [[secret ballot]], associated with the [[Chartism|Chartists]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Protestant Elector |date=1847 |page=100 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uqIOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA100 |language=en}}</ref> He came third in the poll with 769 votes, behind [[Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Earl Fortescue|Viscount Ebrington]] (921) and [[Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne|Roundell Palmer]] (837).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Worth |first1=R. N. (Richard Nicholls) |title=History of Plymouth : from the earliest period to the present time |date=1890 |publisher=Plymouth : W. Brenden |page=166 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyplymouth02wortgoog/page/166/mode/1up}}</ref> For the [[1852 United Kingdom general election|1852 general election]], [[Robert Porrett Collier]] took his place, stating that "his opinions perhaps did not go so far as Mr. Calmady's, but this was not an objection".<ref>{{cite news |title=Election Intelligence |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001306/18520428/079/0007 |work=Western Courier, West of England Conservative, Plymouth and Devonport Advertiser |date=28 April 1852|page=7}}</ref> Collier was elected.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mr Robert Collier (Hansard) |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-robert-collier/index.html |website=api.parliament.uk}}</ref>
The president or chairman of the Free Trade Association of the 1840s in Plymouth, Calmady supported the [[repeal of the Corn Laws]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Plymouth Free Trade Association |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000082/18441002/015/0004 |work=Morning Chronicle |date=2 October 1844|page=4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Examiner |date=1845 |publisher=John Hunt |page=809 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hn8bJ1rl8YcC&pg=PA809 |language=en}}</ref> He stood for election as a Liberal in 1847, in the Free Trade interest, in {{constlk|Plymouth}}, a constituency which returned two members to parliament.<ref>{{cite book |title=Gardeners' Chronicle |date=1847 |publisher=Haymarket Publishing |page=170 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MTA1AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA170 |language=en}}</ref> In debate with [[Richard Crowder]] in Plymouth on 15 July at a noisy meeting, Calmady announced political principles, including broader suffrage and the [[secret ballot]], associated with the [[Chartism|Chartists]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Protestant Elector |date=1847 |page=100 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uqIOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA100 |language=en}}</ref> He came third in the poll with 769 votes, behind [[Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Earl Fortescue|Viscount Ebrington]] (921) and [[Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne|Roundell Palmer]] (837).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Worth |first1=R. N. (Richard Nicholls) |title=History of Plymouth : from the earliest period to the present time |date=1890 |publisher=Plymouth : W. Brenden |page=166 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyplymouth02wortgoog/page/166/mode/1up}}</ref> For the [[1852 United Kingdom general election|1852 general election]], [[Robert Porrett Collier]] took his place, stating that "his opinions perhaps did not go so far as Mr. Calmady's, but this was not an objection".<ref>{{cite news |title=Election Intelligence |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001306/18520428/079/0007 |work=Western Courier, West of England Conservative, Plymouth and Devonport Advertiser |date=28 April 1852|page=7}}</ref> Collier was elected.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mr Robert Collier (Hansard) |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-robert-collier/index.html |website=api.parliament.uk}}</ref>


==Cricket==
==Cricket==
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==Family==
==Family==
[[File:Emily Greenwood Calmady (1794-1855) Harlow.jpg|thumb|Emily Calmady (1794–1855), portrait by [[George Henry Harlow]]]]
[[File:Emily Greenwood Calmady (1794-1855) Harlow.jpg|thumb|Emily Calmady (1794–1855), portrait by [[George Henry Harlow]]]]
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'',<ref name="VPC">{{cite news |title=Mr. Vincent Pollexfen Calmady |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002525/18830224/082/0016 |work=Sporting Gazette |date=24 February 1883|page=16}}</ref> and of [[John Greenwood (lawyer)|John Greenwood]].<ref>{{acad|id=GRNT818J|name=Greenwood, John}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |last2=Baetjer |first2=Katharine |title=British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875 |date=2009 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |isbn=978-1-58839-348-7 |page=215 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FZzL3ey6gDYC&pg=PA215 |language=en}}</ref> Lawrence corresponded with Emily at Woodcote House, Calmady's residence in Hampshire, in the region of [[New Alresford|Alresford]] and Bramdean, near Brookwood Park and the London-Southampton road.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Williams |first1=D. E. |title=The Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence |date=1831 |publisher=Colburn |page=343|volume=VII |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CTphAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA343 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Family Topographer|date=1832 |publisher=J.B. Nichols and Son |page=156 |url=https://archive.org/details/familytopograph01tymmgoog/page/n182/mode/1up? |language=English}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Mogg |first1=Edward |title=Paterson's Roads, Being an Entirely Original and Accurate Description of All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales, with Parts of the Roads of Scotland |date=1832 |publisher=Longman, Rees, Orme |page=55 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cxvNImjh8T0C&pg=RA2-PA55 |language=en}}</ref>
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'',<ref name="VPC">{{cite news |title=Mr. Vincent Pollexfen Calmady |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002525/18830224/082/0016 |work=Sporting Gazette |date=24 February 1883|page=16}}</ref> and of [[John Greenwood (lawyer)|John Greenwood]].<ref>{{acad|id=GRNT818J|name=Greenwood, John}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |last2=Baetjer |first2=Katharine |title=British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875 |date=2009 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |isbn=978-1-58839-348-7 |page=215 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FZzL3ey6gDYC&pg=PA215 |language=en}}</ref> Lawrence corresponded with Emily at Woodcote House, Calmady's residence in Hampshire, in the region of [[New Alresford|Alresford]] and Bramdean, near Brookwood Park and the London-Southampton road.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Williams |first1=D. E. |title=The Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence |date=1831 |publisher=Colburn |page=343|volume=VII |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CTphAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA343 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Family Topographer|date=1832 |publisher=J.B. Nichols and Son |page=156 |url=https://archive.org/details/familytopograph01tymmgoog/page/n182/mode/1up? |language=English}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Mogg |first1=Edward |title=Paterson's Roads, Being an Entirely Original and Accurate Description of All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales, with Parts of the Roads of Scotland |date=1832 |publisher=Longman, Rees, Orme |page=55 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cxvNImjh8T0C&pg=RA2-PA55 |language=en}}</ref>


The couple later resided on the family estate at Langdon Hall, Devon, where they were both buried in January 1855.<ref>Plymouth & West Devon Record Office Collection</ref> The family sold the Hall in 1875.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1324841}}</ref>
The couple later resided on the family estate at Langdon Hall, Devon, where they were both buried in January 1855.<ref>Plymouth & West Devon Record Office Collection</ref> The family sold the Hall in 1875.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1324841}}</ref>
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They had children including:
They had children including:


*Vincent Pollexfen Calmady MFH, only son, born 1825.<ref name="VPC"/> He married in 1887 Isabel Sheldon, daughter of [[Edward Sheldon (politician)|Edward Sheldon]] and widow of Frederick Dewes Granville, and died at [[Tetcott]] in 1896.<ref>{{cite news |title=Deaths |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001283/18960314/005/0001 |work=Coleraine Chronicle |date=14 March 1896|page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland |date=1894 |publisher=Harrison |isbn=978-0-394-48726-7 |page=274 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=93M-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA274 |language=en}}</ref>
*Vincent Pollexfen Calmady MFH, only son, born 1825.<ref name="VPC"/> He married in 1887 Isabel Sheldon, daughter of [[Edward Sheldon (politician)|Edward Sheldon]] and widow of Frederick Dewes Granville, and died at [[Tetcott]] in 1896.<ref>{{cite news |title=Deaths |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001283/18960314/005/0001 |work=Coleraine Chronicle |date=14 March 1896|page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland |date=1894 |publisher=Harrison |isbn=978-0-394-48726-7 |page=274 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=93M-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA274 |language=en}}</ref>
*Emily, died 1906 unmarried.<ref>{{cite news |title=Personal and Incidental |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000434/19060331/143/0007 |work=Northern Whig |date=31 March 1906|page=7}}</ref>
*Emily, died 1906 unmarried.<ref>{{cite news |title=Personal and Incidental |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000434/19060331/143/0007 |work=Northern Whig |date=31 March 1906|page=7}}</ref>
*Laura, died 1894 unmarried, suffragist and supporter of the [[RSPCA]], [[NSPCC]] and [[Dartmoor Preservation Society]].<ref>{{cite news |title=- |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003340/18940908/065/0013 |work=Gentlewoman |date=8 September 1894|page=13}}</ref>
*Laura, died 1894 unmarried, suffragist and supporter of the [[RSPCA]], [[NSPCC]] and [[Dartmoor Preservation Society]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003340/18940908/065/0013 |work=Gentlewoman |date=8 September 1894|page=13}}</ref>
*Honora Mary, third daughter, married Sir John Augustus Hugh Boyd, 4th Baronet.<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary of Eminent Persons |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001578/18760805/079/0022 |work=Illustrated London News |date=5 August 1876|page=22}}</ref>
*Honora Mary, third daughter, married Sir John Augustus Hugh Boyd, 4th Baronet.<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary of Eminent Persons |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001578/18760805/079/0022 |work=Illustrated London News |date=5 August 1876|page=22}}</ref>
*Cycill Christiana, fourth daughter, married in 1854 William Frederick Collier, second son of [[John Collier (MP)|John Collier]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Married |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001945/18540311/083/0016 |work=John Bull |date=11 March 1854|page=16}}</ref>
*Cycill Christiana, fourth daughter, married in 1854 William Frederick Collier, second son of [[John Collier (MP)|John Collier]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Married |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001945/18540311/083/0016 |work=John Bull |date=11 March 1854|page=16}}</ref>
*Gertrude Elizabeth.<ref>{{cite book |title=Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland |date=1875 |publisher=H. Colburn |page=195 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZNEKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA195 |language=en}}</ref>
*Gertrude Elizabeth.<ref>{{cite book |title=Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland |date=1875 |publisher=H. Colburn |page=195 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZNEKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA195 |language=en}}</ref>
[[File:The Calmady Children (Emily, 1818–?1906, and Laura Anne, 1820–1894) MET DP162148.jpg|thumb|left|Portrait of the Calmady daughters Emily (born 1818) and Laura Anne (born 1820), 1823 by [[Thomas Lawrence]] as ''The Calmady Children'', in the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]]]
[[File:The Calmady Children (Emily, 1818–?1906, and Laura Anne, 1820–1894) MET DP162148.jpg|thumb|left|Portrait of the Calmady daughters Emily (born 1818) and Laura Anne (born 1820), 1823 by [[Thomas Lawrence]] as ''The Calmady Children'', in the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]]]


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Charles Biggs Calmady
Bust-length painted portrait of Charles Biggs Calmady, formally dressed
Portrait of Charles Calmady in 1830, by Frederick Richard Say
Born1791[1]
Died1855[1]
Occupationlandowner

Charles Biggs Calmady (5 February 1791 – 8 January 1855)[1] was an English landowner and cricketer with amateur status.

Life

He was 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). This was his mother's second marriage: she had previously been married to her cousin Warwick Calmady, who had died. She was the daughter of Francis Vincent Calmady. She was also co-heiress of her brother Francis John Calmady.[2][3] Everitt had been wrecked off Ushant as captain of HMS Arethusa in 1779.[4] He commanded HMS Solebay at the Battle of Saint Kitts in 1782, burning it when driven aground on Nevis by French attacks. The wreck has been investigated from 2010 by Chris Cartellone.[5][6] His change of surname to Calmady took place in 1788.[3]

His father having died in March 1807, Calmady matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford in July of that year, aged 16.[7][8] Lysons (1822) gave his residence as Holne Chace, on Dartmoor.[3] His mother died aged 73 in 1828 at Langdon Hall, Devon, the family seat in the parish of Wembury, about 5 miles (8.0 km) from Plymouth.[9][10] She had bought West Wembury farm, from the Lockyer family, and owned also the barton at Down Thomas, where the manor belonged to Edmund Pollexfen Bastard.[11]

Langdon Hall, Devon, 1818 engraving

Calmady promoted West of England colonising schemes.[12] During 1839 John George Cooke (1819–1880) heard from Calmady and Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet of their interest in a "New Plymouth" project of settlement in New Zealand.[13] Around 1840 Calmady became involved with the New Zealand Company, sitting on its West of England Board.[14] His brother-in-law Robert Greenwood (died 1889) emigrated to New Zealand in 1850, having turned down an offer to go in 1841 with Cooke on the Amelia Thompson. He named Calmady Terrace in New Plymouth after his sister Emily.[15][16][17]

The president or chairman of the Free Trade Association of the 1840s in Plymouth, Calmady supported the repeal of the Corn Laws.[18][19] He stood for election as a Liberal in 1847, in the Free Trade interest, in Plymouth, a constituency which returned two members to parliament.[20] In debate with Richard Crowder in Plymouth on 15 July at a noisy meeting, Calmady announced political principles, including broader suffrage and the secret ballot, associated with the Chartists.[21] He came third in the poll with 769 votes, behind Viscount Ebrington (921) and Roundell Palmer (837).[22] For the 1852 general election, Robert Porrett Collier took his place, stating that "his opinions perhaps did not go so far as Mr. Calmady's, but this was not an objection".[23] Collier was elected.[24]

Cricket

Calmady was associated with Marylebone Cricket Club and made his first-class cricket debut in 1828.[25] His bowling helped Plymouth Garrison Club defeat Devonport Club in September 1829.[26]

Family

Emily Calmady (1794–1855), portrait by George Henry Harlow

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,[27] and of John Greenwood.[28] 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.[29] Lawrence corresponded with Emily at Woodcote House, Calmady's residence in Hampshire, in the region of Alresford and Bramdean, near Brookwood Park and the London-Southampton road.[30][31][32]

The couple later resided on the family estate at Langdon Hall, Devon, where they were both buried in January 1855.[33] The family sold the Hall in 1875.[34]

They had children including:

  • Vincent Pollexfen Calmady MFH, only son, born 1825.[27] He married in 1887 Isabel Sheldon, daughter of Edward Sheldon and widow of Frederick Dewes Granville, and died at Tetcott in 1896.[35][36]
  • Emily, died 1906 unmarried.[37]
  • Laura, died 1894 unmarried, suffragist and supporter of the RSPCA, NSPCC and Dartmoor Preservation Society.[38]
  • Honora Mary, third daughter, married Sir John Augustus Hugh Boyd, 4th Baronet.[39]
  • Cycill Christiana, fourth daughter, married in 1854 William Frederick Collier, second son of John Collier.[40]
  • Gertrude Elizabeth.[41]
Portrait of the Calmady daughters Emily (born 1818) and Laura Anne (born 1820), 1823 by Thomas Lawrence as The Calmady Children, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

References

  1. ^ a b c The Western Antiquary, Or, Devon and Cornwall Note Book. Latimer & son. 1890. p. 179.
  2. ^ "England Marriages, 1538–1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKGP-D2T : 13 March 2020), Charles Holmes Everitt, 1783.
  3. ^ a b c Lysons, Daniel (1822). Magna Britannia; Being A Concise Topographical Account Of The Several Counties Of Great Britain: Devonshire. 6. Vol. VI. Thomas Cadell. p. cxxxvii.
  4. ^ Schomberg, Isaac (1815). Naval Chronology. T. Egerton. p. 456.
  5. ^ "ShipLAB Research Portfolio PDF Free Download". hobbydocbox.com.
  6. ^ "Mapping History: Revolutionary War Era Wreck Explored by New York Students". Scuba Diving.
  7. ^ Clarke, James Stanier; McArthur, John (2 September 2010). The Naval Chronicle: Volume 17, January-July 1807: Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects. Cambridge University Press. p. 263. ISBN 978-1-108-01856-2.
  8. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Calmady, Charles Biggs" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  9. ^ "Died". Bell's Weekly Messenger. 17 March 1828. p. 7.
  10. ^ Neale, John Preston (1821). Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Sherwood, Jones and Company. p. 37.
  11. ^ Lysons, Daniel (1822). Magna Britannia; Being A Concise Topographical Account Of The Several Counties Of Great Britain: Devonshire. 6. Vol. VI part 2. Thomas Cadell. p. 550.
  12. ^ The Turnbull Library Record. Friends of the Turnbull Library. 1967. p. 43.
  13. ^ Connor, Helene (2021). "On Becoming "Colonially Bitten". The Reminiscences of John George Cooke and his Sojourn to Aotearoa New Zealand, 1841 – 1850". Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies. 25 (1): 6.
  14. ^ New Zealand Company (1842). Latest Information from the Settlement of New Plymouth, on the Coast of Taranake, New Zealand: Comprising Letters from Settlers There; with an Account of Its General Products, Agricultural and Commercial Capabilities, &c. 53: Smith, Elder. ISBN 978-1-927279-40-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  15. ^ "John George Cooke and his Literary Connections". Turnbull Library Record. 2 (1): 46. 1 October 1969.
  16. ^ Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. H. Colburn. 1875. p. 544.
  17. ^ "The Late Mr Robert Greenwood". Taranaki Herald. Vol. XXXVIII, no. 8586. 25 September 1889. p. 2.
  18. ^ "Plymouth Free Trade Association". Morning Chronicle. 2 October 1844. p. 4.
  19. ^ The Examiner. John Hunt. 1845. p. 809.
  20. ^ Gardeners' Chronicle. Haymarket Publishing. 1847. p. 170.
  21. ^ The Protestant Elector. 1847. p. 100.
  22. ^ Worth, R. N. (Richard Nicholls) (1890). History of Plymouth : from the earliest period to the present time. Plymouth : W. Brenden. p. 166.
  23. ^ "Election Intelligence". Western Courier, West of England Conservative, Plymouth and Devonport Advertiser. 28 April 1852. p. 7.
  24. ^ "Mr Robert Collier (Hansard)". api.parliament.uk.
  25. ^ "Charles Calmady". CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  26. ^ "Cricket". Western Times. 26 September 1829. p. 4.
  27. ^ a b "Mr. Vincent Pollexfen Calmady". Sporting Gazette. 24 February 1883. p. 16.
  28. ^ "Greenwood, John (GRNT818J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  29. ^ 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.
  30. ^ Williams, D. E. (1831). The Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence. Vol. VII. Colburn. p. 343.
  31. ^ The Family Topographer. J.B. Nichols and Son. 1832. p. 156.
  32. ^ Mogg, Edward (1832). Paterson's Roads, Being an Entirely Original and Accurate Description of All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales, with Parts of the Roads of Scotland. Longman, Rees, Orme. p. 55.
  33. ^ Plymouth & West Devon Record Office Collection
  34. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1324841)". National Heritage List for England.
  35. ^ "Deaths". Coleraine Chronicle. 14 March 1896. p. 1.
  36. ^ Burke, Bernard (1894). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison. p. 274. ISBN 978-0-394-48726-7.
  37. ^ "Personal and Incidental". Northern Whig. 31 March 1906. p. 7.
  38. ^ Gentlewoman. 8 September 1894. p. 13 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003340/18940908/065/0013. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  39. ^ "Obituary of Eminent Persons". Illustrated London News. 5 August 1876. p. 22.
  40. ^ "Married". John Bull. 11 March 1854. p. 16.
  41. ^ Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. H. Colburn. 1875. p. 195.
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