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CALVERT, SIR HARRY, BART

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

(1815), and, on retiring from See also:

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

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