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Sir Harry Calvert, 1st Bt

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Sir Harry Calvert, 1st Bt

by Richard Golding, after Thomas Phillips
line engraving, published 1828 (1826)
15 5/8 in. x 12 5/8 in. (398 mm x 320 mm) plate size; 20 1/4 in. x 15 7/8 in. (513 mm x 402 mm) paper size
Reference Collection
NPG D32541

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  • Richard Golding. Artist or producer associated with 8 portraits.
  • Thomas Phillips (1770-1845), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 218 portraits, Sitter in 4 portraits.

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Current affairs

Duke of Wellington becomes Prime Minister.
Madhouse Act attempts to regulate asylums and ensure new arrivals are genuinely insane.
Repeal of the Test Acts removes political restrictions from dissenters, allowing them to hold public office.

Art and science

London Zoological Gardens open in Regent's Park. They provide both entertainment and a supply of exotic specimens for naturalists and anatomists such as Richard Owen who becomes a European authority on the subject.

International

Daniel O'Connell is elected Member of Parliament for County Clare but as a Catholic is not permitted to take his seat.

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Glenys Warlow

22 February 2020, 22:11

If this is General Sir Harry Calvert he was the father of Sir Harry Verney 2nd Bt. Sir Harry changed his name by Royal Sign when he inherited Claydon House in Buckinghamshire from a distant cousin Catherine Calvert wife of the Rev Robert Wright. Her half-sister Mary was the last Verney, d.1810. He was MP for 50 years mainly in Buckingham except for a short stint as MP for Bedford. His second wife was Parthenope Nightingale the sister of Florence. General Sir Harry Calvert's wife Caroline Daughter of Thomas Hammersley died shortly after the birth of their 5th child.