Charles Calvert was a wealthy English

England

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 brewer

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 and Member of Parliament

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 in the early 19th century.

Calvert was the third son of Southwark

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 brewer Felix Calvert, and was educated at Tonbridge

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 and Harrow

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 Schools. In 1802, he inherited a half-share in his father’s brewery

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.

A Whig

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, he stood for Parliament and was elected as MP for Southwark

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 from 1812 to 1830 and then from 1830 until his death in 1832.

In Parliament, he allied himself with brewers’ interests, often opposing taxes on tobacco

Tobacco

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, beer

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 and tea

Tea

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 for their impacts on the working classes and on manufacturers. He opposed the blockage of Norway

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 in 1814 and the resumption of hostilities with Napoleon, and supported parliamentary reform.

He married Jane, youngest daughter of Sir William Rowley of Tendring Hall, Suffolk

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, in 1823, and lived at Ockley

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 Court in Surrey

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 and Kneller Hall

Kneller Hall

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 in Twickenham

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, west London

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, up to his death from cholera

Cholera

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 in September 1832.

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