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A year in the life: 1861
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January |
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February |
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Lane Fox reads Plato |
Thompson, 1977: 19, 123 |
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March |
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By around now, the dispute over inquiry into Lane Fox's training methods ends and Lane Fox is acquitted |
Chapman, 1981: 105-6 |
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Early in 1861 |
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Lane Fox elected to Ethnological Society of London |
Chapman, 1981 Chapter 4 |
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April |
12, 14 or 15 |
Lane Fox's 34th birthday |
See 1827 for uncertainty about exact date |
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May |
20 |
Lane Fox reads second paper to United Services Institute [USI] 'On a model illustrating the parabolic theory ...' |
Chapman, 1981: 106; Thompson, 1977: 28 |
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May |
23 |
Lane Fox appointed to position re the 1862 International Exhibition |
The Times 23 May 1861 |
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June |
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Sales of surplus collection of the United Services Institution by Sotheby's in London, Lane Fox attends |
Chapman, 1981: 68 |
Chapman lists the sale catalogues of Sotheby's as evidence of Lane Fox buying at these sales. He apparently bought 'a vase .... a model of a S. American hut and a Swiss cottage, a Chinese wooden harmonican and a small portrait of Boadicea'. |
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July |
1 |
Letter to Morning Post about musketry training |
Morning Post page 2 1 July 1861 |
My thanks to Dan Hicks for pointing this letter our |
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July |
24 |
Sale of items from USI by Sotheby [PR acquired pieces from sale] |
Sotheby papers held at Bodleian Library, Chapman, 1981: 68 |
See above |
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August |
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September |
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Autumn |
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Lane Fox attends his first meeting of Ethnological Society |
Chapman, 1981 Chapter 4 |
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October |
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November |
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8 November, British mail steamer Trent boarded by a Union ship Lane Fox assigned to 'special service' |
Chris Evans pers comm
Chapman, 1981: 107 |
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December |
2 |
Lane Fox sails for Canada on special service |
Thompson, 1977: 29, 123; Chapman, 1981: Chapter 3; Hamilton, F.W. 1874. The Origin and History of the First or Grenadier Guards (Volume III). London: John Murray. p. 321 |
He was presumably have been one of the force of men sent out as a precaution / deterrent to Canada as a reaction to the American Civil War. His job was to establish another training school according to Chapman |
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December |
6 |
Decision taken to send troops to North America following Trent incident, the first troops sail 7 December |
Chris Evans pers comm |
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December |
13 |
Lane Fox promoted Lieutenant-Colonel for particular service |
London Gazette (22576: 5374) |
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Lane Fox joins Ethnological Society of London |
Thompson, 1977: 33 Chapman, 1981: 174 and on; Chapman, 1981: 616 |
Chapman, 1981: 616 suggests that he joined 1860-1 as result of recruitment drive for members |
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William Owen Stanley digs for first time at Ty Mawr |
Bowden, 1991: 73 |
See August and Autumn 1868 for second excavation with P-R |
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