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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
Bornc.1791
Died1855
Occupationlandowner

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

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] They resided on the family estate Langdon Court, Devon, where they were both buried January 1855.[6] They had at least six children, including:

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
  • Vincent Pollexfen Calmady MFH, only son, born 1825.[4]
  • Laura, died 1894 unmarried, suffragist and supporter of the RSPCA, NSPCC and Dartmoor Preservation Society.[7]
  • Honora Mary, third daughter, married Sir John Augustus Hugh Boyd, 4th Baronet.[8]
  • Cycill Christiana, fourth daughter, married in 1854 William Frederick Collier, second son of John Collier.[9]

References

  1. ^ "England Marriages, 1538–1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKGP-D2T : 13 March 2020), Charles Holmes Everitt, 1783.
  2. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Calmady, Charles Biggs" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  3. ^ "Charles Calmady". CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Mr. Vincent Pollexfen Calmady". Sporting Gazette. 24 February 1883. p. 16.
  5. ^ "Greenwood, John (GRNT818J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  6. ^ Plymouth & West Devon Record Office Collection
  7. ^ "-". Gentlewoman. 8 September 1894. p. 13.
  8. ^ "Obituary of Eminent Persons". Illustrated London News. 5 August 1876. p. 22.
  9. ^ "Married". John Bull. 11 March 1854. p. 16.