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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). 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.[1][2] Everitt's change of surname to Calmady took place in 1788.

His father having died in March 1807, Calmady matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford in July of that year, aged 16.[3][4] Lysons (1822) gave his residence as Holne Chace, on Dartmoor.[2] His mother died at Langdon Court, Devon in 1828, aged 73.[5] She had bought West Wembury, and owned also the barton at Down Thomas, where the manor belonged to Edmund Pollexfen Bastard.[6]

Calmady promoted West of England colonising schemes.[7] 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.[8] Around 1840 Calmady became involved with the New Zealand Company, sitting on its West of England Board.[9] 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.[10][11][12]

Cricket

Calmady was associated with Marylebone Cricket Club and made his first-class cricket debut in 1828.[13]

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,[14] and of John Greenwood.[15] 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.[16] 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.[17][18][19]

The couple later resided on the family estate at Langdon Court, Devon, where they were both buried in January 1855.[20]

They had children including:

  • Vincent Pollexfen Calmady MFH, only son, born 1825.[14]
  • Emily, died 1906 unmarried.[21]
  • Laura, died 1894 unmarried, suffragist and supporter of the RSPCA, NSPCC and Dartmoor Preservation Society.[22]
  • Honora Mary, third daughter, married Sir John Augustus Hugh Boyd, 4th Baronet.[23]
  • Cycill Christiana, fourth daughter, married in 1854 William Frederick Collier, second son of John Collier.[24]
  • Gertrude Elizabeth.[25]
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. ^ "England Marriages, 1538–1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKGP-D2T : 13 March 2020), Charles Holmes Everitt, 1783.
  2. ^ a b 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Calmady, Charles Biggs" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  5. ^ "Died". Bell's Weekly Messenger. 17 March 1828. p. 7.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ The Turnbull Library Record. Friends of the Turnbull Library. 1967. p. 43.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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)
  10. ^ "John George Cooke and his Literary Connections". Turnbull Library Record. 2 (2.1): 46. 1 October 1969.
  11. ^ Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. H. Colburn. 1875. p. 544.
  12. ^ "The Late Mr Robert Greenwood". Taranaki Herald. Vol. XXXVIII, no. 8586. 25 September 1889. p. 2.
  13. ^ "Charles Calmady". CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  14. ^ a b "Mr. Vincent Pollexfen Calmady". Sporting Gazette. 24 February 1883. p. 16.
  15. ^ "Greenwood, John (GRNT818J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ Williams, D. E. (1831). The Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence. Vol. VII. Colburn. p. 343.
  18. ^ The Family Topographer. J.B. Nichols and Son. 1832. p. 156.
  19. ^ 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.
  20. ^ Plymouth & West Devon Record Office Collection
  21. ^ "Personal and Incidental". Northern Whig. 31 March 1906. p. 7.
  22. ^ "-". Gentlewoman. 8 September 1894. p. 13.
  23. ^ "Obituary of Eminent Persons". Illustrated London News. 5 August 1876. p. 22.
  24. ^ "Married". John Bull. 11 March 1854. p. 16.
  25. ^ Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. H. Colburn. 1875. p. 195.
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