The Fourteenth Foot. [Called CALVERT from their colonel, Sir Harry Calvert (1806–1826), and ENTIRE, because three entire battalions were kept up for the good of Sir Harry, when adjutant-general. A play upon words in reference to Calvert’s malt liquors.] This regiment was also called the OLD AND BOLD.
1780. R. TOMLINSON, A Slang Pastoral, st. viii.
| Gin! What is become of thy heart-chearing fire, | |
| And where is the beauty of CALVERT’S INTIRE? |
1871. Chambers’s Journal, 23 Dec., p. 803, col. 1. The 14th Foot, CALVERT’S ENTIRE.
1886. Tinsley’s Magazine, April, p. 322. A very curious name, CALVERT’S ENTIRE, used to be attached to the 14th, but this as well as the circumstances which gave rise to it are forgotten.
