A year in the life: 1853

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Month

Day

Event

Source of information

Notes

January

No days

First Minié rifles issued to Guards

F.W. Hamilton The Origin and History of the First or Grenadier Guards (Volume III). London: John Murray. (pp. 153-154)

Thanks to Dan Hicks for pointing this reference out

January

30

Lane Fox's engagement to Alice Stanley announced

The Manchester Guardian and Observer 30 January 1853

 

February

2 or 3

Lane Fox marries Alice Stanley at St George's Hanover Square, London. Honeymoon at Penrhyn Castle, Bangor, Wales

The Times; date of 3rd given in Pitt-Rivers' biography in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Staying with his maternal aunt and uncle

March

by

Lane Fox donates '... a model of a French soldier, size of life, with uniform, knapsack, cap, arms, and accountrements complete; together with a glass case containing a specimen of every article forming the kit of a French soldier'

RUSI annual meeting report in The Morning Post 7 March 1853 page 6

I am grateful to Dan Hicks for pointing this out

April

12, 14 or 15

Lane Fox's 26th birthday

See 1827 entry, uncertainty about exact day of Pitt-Rivers' birth

 

April

No days

Lane Fox tasked to submit new rifle regulations to Colonel Hay, new commandant of School of Musketry in Hythe, Kent

Bowden, 1991: 15

 

April

No days

Lane Fox visits Portsmouth to discuss musketry systems with Hay

F.W. Hamilton The Origin and History of the First or Grenadier Guards (Volume III). London: John Murray. (pp. 153-154)

Thanks to Dan Hicks for pointing this reference out

April

No days

Lane Fox visits Portsmouth to discuss musketry systems with Hay

Chapman, 1981: Chapter 1

 

May

11

Lane Fox at Foreign Office Grand Ball

The Times May 12 1853

 

June

No days

Hythe school of musketry established; Lane Fox moves to Hythe

Chapman, 1981: Chapter 1

 

July

 

 

 

 

August

 

 

 

 

September

 

 

 

 

October

 

 

 

 

November

?

First child stillborn

Thompson 1977: 12, The Times 14 November 1853; Mitford 'Stanleys' p. 82-3

 

December

 

 


 

No month [Summer]

No days

Lane Fox and family move to Hythe, Kent

Thompson, 1977: 12

See June above

No month

No days

Lane Fox appointed Commandant, School of Musketry, Hythe, Kent

Thompson, 1977: 12

 

No month

No days

Lane Fox's father in law Lord Stanley becomes President of the Board of Trade

Chapman, Chapter 1

 

No month

No days

First Minié rifles issued to Guards

F.W. Hamilton The Origin and History of the First or Grenadier Guards (Volume III). London: John Murray. (pp. 153-154)

Thanks to Dan Hicks for pointing this reference out

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