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BART SIR HARRY CALVERT

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 70 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BART
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SIR HARRY CALVERT
  . (c . 1763-1826),
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British general,. was probably born early in 1763 at Hampton, near
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London . He was educated at
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Harrow, and at the age of fifteen entered the army . In the following
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year he served with his regiment in
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America, being
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present at the siege of
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Charleston, and serving through the
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campaign of- Lord Cornwallis which ended with the surrender of
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Yorktown . From 1781 to 1783 he was a prisoner of war . Returning to England in 1784, he next saw active service in 1793–1794 in the Low Countries, where he was aide-de-camp to the duke of York, and in 1795 was engaged on a confidential
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mission to Brunswick and Berlin . In 1799, having already served as deputy adjutant general, he was made adjutant general, holding the
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post till 1818 . In this capacity he effected many improvements in the organization and discipline of the service . He greatly improved the administration of the army medical and hospital department, introduced regimental
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schools,
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developed the two existing military colleges (since
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united at
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Sandhurst), and was largely responsible for the founding of the Duke of York's school,
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Chelsea . In recognition of his
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work as adjutant general he was made a G . C.B .

(1815), and, on retiring from

office, received a baronetcy (1818) . In 182o he was made governor of Chelsea hospital . He died on the 3rd of September 1826, at
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Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire . CALVES' HEAD CLUB, a club established shortly after his
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death in derision of the memory of Charles I . Its chief meeting was held on the 3oth of each
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January, the anniversary of the king's execution, when the dishes served were a
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cod's head to represent the individual, Charles Stuart; a pike representing tyranny; a boar's head representing the king preying on his subjects; and calves' heads representing Charles as king and his adherents . On the table an axe held the place of honour . After the banquet a copy of the king's Ikon Basilike was burnt, and the
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toast was " To those worthy patriots who killed the tyrant." After the Restoration the club met secretly . The first mention of it is in a tract reprinted in the Harleian
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Miscellany entitled " The Secret
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History of the Calves' Head Club." The club survived till 1734, when the diners were mobbed owing to the popular
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ill-feeling which their outrages on good taste provoked, and the riot which ensued put a final stop to the meetings .

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