Baltimore cotton merchant, son-in-law of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and founder of Catonsville. Two of his daughters married British peers. Charles Creevey knew his father, a Liverpool sea-captain.

REFERENCES TO Richard Caton:

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 24 November 1832 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)