Editing Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (section)

==Early life and education==
Calvert was born on 8 August 1605 in [[Kent]], England, to [[George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore|George Calvert]], a young English lawyer and assistant to [[Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury|Lord Cecil]] (1563–1612), [[Secretary of State (England)|Secretary of State]] to [[James VI and I|King James I]], and was christened "Cecilius" in honour of his father's employer.<ref>Browne, p. 4</ref><ref>Fiske, John (1897), ''Old Virginia and Her Neighbors'', Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 255</ref> His mother, his father's wife, was Anne Mynne (or Mayne),<ref name="Richardson"/> and he was the first of several sons.  At the time, his father was under pressure to conform, and all ten children were baptised into the [[Church of England]].<ref name = "kxxxii">Krugler, John D. (2004). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Lo5Bbf1AqYAC  English and Catholic: the Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century]''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; {{ISBN|0-8018-7963-9}}, p. 32.</ref>

Calvert entered [[Trinity College, Oxford|Trinity College]], [[University of Oxford|Oxford]], in 1621. His mother died the following year.<ref name = "kxxxii"/> In 1625, his father, George Calvert, was created the first [[Baron Baltimore]], of [[Drumlish|Baltimore]], [[County Longford]], in the [[peerage of Ireland]], which did not give him a seat in the English [[House of Lords]].<ref name="Richardson"/> He formally converted to [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholicism]] the same year, and it is likely that his children followed him; at least his sons did.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

In 1628, Cecil Calvert accompanied his father, along with most of his siblings and his stepmother, to the newly settled [[Colony of Newfoundland]]. The colony failed due to disease, extreme cold and attacks by the French, and the family returned to England.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

Cecil Calvert succeeded as the second Baron Baltimore upon his father's death in April 1632. On 8 August 1633, the new Lord Baltimore was [[called to the bar]] as a [[barrister]] from [[Gray's Inn]].<ref name="Richardson">Richardson, Douglas (2005). ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', p. 169. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company; {{ISBN|0-8063-1759-0}}.</ref>