Memoirs of an old wig / [Anon].

  • Richard Fenton
Date:
1815
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memoirs of an old wig / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    namely, Bag Wigs, Tail or Queus, Towers or Half Wigs, Toupees, Full Bottoms, Ramillies, Allegreck, with many others, and the Wig generally, as well as by all its particular names, has served as a distinguishing mark ; General Whitford, Colonel of the 19th Regiment, was known through- out the army, by the name of' White Wig. The two Generals Pattisons were also designated on a foreign ex- pedition by the titles of Queue and Toupee. — Mr. Wood of the Artil- lery, that he might not be confounded with another officer of the same name, was known by the appellation of Wig Wood. —- And General Skinner, En- gineer, wore a large black Wig at the Siege of Belleisle ; a Serjeant who had heard him described by his Wig, seeing him coming, turned out his guard, by calling out —“ Turn out “ the Guard — the Wig ! the Wig !”
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