{{Short description|British Whig politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Frederick Calvert | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|QC}} | image = | alt = | caption = | office = Member of Parliament <br /> for Aylesbury | term_start = 27 December 1850 | term_end = 3 April 1851 | alongside = Quintin Dick | predecessor = Quintin Dick<br />George Nugent-Grenville | successor = Quintin Dick<br />Richard Bethell | birth_name = | birth_date = 9 June 1806 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1891|06|06|1806|06|09}} | death_place = | resting_place = | alma_mater = | party = Whig | parents = Harry Calvert<br />Caroline Hammersley | spouse = {{marriage|Lucy Caroline Herbert|14 September 1865}} | relatives = Harry Verney (brother) | children = }}
'''Frederick Calvert''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|QC}} (9 June 1806 – 6 June 1891)<ref>{{Rayment-hc|a|c|date=April 2018}}</ref> was a British Whig politician.<ref name="thepeerage">{{cite web|title=Frederick Calvert|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p4995.htm#i49945|website=The Peerage|access-date=7 April 2018}}</ref>
==Early life and family== Born 1806, Calvert was the second son of British general Harry Calvert and Caroline (née Hammersley), and the younger brother Harry Verney, Buckingham MP. He was called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1831, and later made a Queen's Counsel. He married Lucy Caroline Herbert, daughter of Tory politician Edward Herbert and Lucy (née Graham) in 1865; they had no children.<ref name="disraeli">{{cite book|editor1-last=Wiebe|editor1-first=M. G.|editor2-last=Conacher|editor2-first=J. B.|editor3-last=Matthews|editor3-first=John|editor4-last=Millar|editor4-first=Mary S|title=Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1848-1851|date=1993|publisher=University of Toronto Press|location=London|isbn=0802029272|page=395|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z4QQWDxUch4C&q=frederick+calvert+aylesbury+1806+1891&pg=PA395|access-date=7 April 2018}}</ref><ref name="thepeerage"/>
He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and Merton College, Oxford,<ref>"Calvert, Frederick", ''Alumni Oxonienses'', p. 211</ref> where he was a president of the United Debating Society.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hollis |first1=Christopher |title=The Oxford Union |date=1965 |publisher=Evans |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/773996}}</ref>
==Political career== Calvert was elected Whig MP for Aylesbury at a by-election in 1850, caused by the death of George Nugent-Grenville. However, he was unseated just a few months into the role after a petition-led inquiry found evidence of treating and bribery.<ref>{{cite news|title=Latest News|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000249/18510405/019/0003|access-date=7 April 2018|work=Leamington Spa Courier|date=5 April 1851|page=3|via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="craig1832">{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|type=e-book}}</ref><ref name="disraeli"/><ref name="thepeerage"/>
During his life, Calvert was also a Deputy Lieutenant for Buckinghamshire.<ref name="disraeli"/><ref name="thepeerage"/>
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==External links== * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-frederick-calvert | Mr Frederick Calvert }}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Calvert, Frederick}} Category:UK MPs 1847–1852 Category:1806 births Category:1891 deaths Category:Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies Category:Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Category:Alumni of Merton College, Oxford Category:Presidents of the Oxford Union Category:Deputy lieutenants of Buckinghamshire Category:19th-century King's Counsel