. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. EDWINSTREE HUNDRED. Caltert. Paly or and sable a bend counter- coloured. son Nicolson Calvert of Hunsdon, Sheriff of Hert- fordshire in 1749 *°<i member for Tewkesbury in 1754, 1761 and 1768. 'In his political career he was an ardent friend to public liberty . . affable in his manner he naturally conciliated esteem ; lively in his conversation and well acquainted with general history he could not fail to render himself an agreeable companion, ... he has left behind him a character which is highly worthy of imitation and whic
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. EDWINSTREE HUNDRED. Caltert. Paly or and sable a bend counter- coloured. son Nicolson Calvert of Hunsdon, Sheriff of Hert- fordshire in 1749 *°<i member for Tewkesbury in 1754, 1761 and 1768. 'In his political career he was an ardent friend to public liberty . . affable in his manner he naturally conciliated esteem ; lively in his conversation and well acquainted with general history he could not fail to render himself an agreeable companion, ... he has left behind him a character which is highly worthy of imitation and which must ever be re- spected.' He died childless in 1793 and had for heir his brother Felix of Portland Place and Thames Street, an eminent brewer, who shot himself in Don Salteno's coffee-house in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, on the even- ing of 23 March I 802. His landed estate passed to his eldest son Nicolson, who was member for Hert- ford borough in 1802, 1806, 1807, 1812, 1818 and 1820, and for the county from 1826 to 1834. He married Frances youngest daughter of Edmond Sexten Lord Pery and died in 1841. His eldest son, Lieutenant-General Felix Calvert of Hunsdon, of the 72nd Regiment, served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo and died without issue in 1856. Edmond Sexten Pery, second surviving son of Nicolson Calvert, succeeded to Furneux Pelham and was a justice of the peace and a deputy-lieutenant for Hertfordshire. He died in 1866 and Furneux Pelham Hall passed to his eldest son, Felix Calvert, ," who died in 1910. It has been recently purchased by Mr. C. WoodalL In 1086 a hide of land in Pelham, previously in the tenure of Alured, a man of Asgar the Staller, was held of the bishop by ; It is possible that this holding constituted the alleged manor of Pj4TN- STON," which was held with Furneux Pelham Manor in 1434** and which was probably identical with the messuage and land called Payston Ende which were held with it in 1557.^ The latter presumably now b
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