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A year in the life: 1873
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Event |
Source of information |
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[Early in year] No month |
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Lane Fox decides to return to active Army service, takes command of West Surrey Brigade Depot, Guildford. Living at Uplands, Merrow |
Chapman, 1981: 368; Thompson, 1977: 51, 124 |
Thompson says it is early in year |
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January |
11 |
Item acquired from William Augustus Lane Fox-Pitt |
PRM Accession book |
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January |
16-30 (at least if not longer) |
25 examples of Cypriote metalwork from founding collection displayed in the Bronze exhibition at the Society of Antiquaries |
Karageorghis, V., Cypriote Art in the PRM' 2009 |
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January |
16 |
Items acquired from Axe Valley |
PRM Accession book |
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February |
28 |
Lane Fox promoted Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel at Brigade Depot with effect from 1 April 1873 |
London Gazette (23954: 1307) |
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March |
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April |
1 |
Lane Fox present at meeting of Anthropological Institute, exhibits Peruvian pottery |
JAI 3, (1874): 100-4 |
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April |
12, 14 or 15 |
Lane Fox's 46th birthday |
See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdate |
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April |
22 |
Lane Fox present at meeting of Anthropological Institute, contributes to discussion |
JAI 3, (1874): 114-5 |
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April |
26 |
Lane Fox loans Peruvian skull for exhibition at Royal Society conversazione at Burlington House |
Morning Post April 28 1873 page 6 |
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April |
27 |
Lane Fox attends Grenadier Guards' regimental dinner |
Morning Post May 29 1873 page 3 |
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May |
6 |
Lane Fox in Chair for meeting of Anthropological Institute |
JAI 3, (1874): 137-9 |
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May |
circa 17 |
Report that Fox will deposit collection at Bethnal Green Museum (so obviously agreed by SKM then) |
Science Gossip, Athenaeum 2377 (17 May 1873) p. 633 |
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June |
4 |
Model boat acquired [may also be August] |
PRM Accession book |
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July |
11 |
Lane Fox attends shooting match at Wimbledon |
The Times 11 July 1873 |
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August |
4 |
Model boat acquired [may also be June] |
PRM Accession book |
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August |
26, 27 |
Model boats acquired |
PRM Accession book |
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August |
27 |
Item acquired from W Africa |
PRM Accession book |
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September |
No day |
Lane Fox attends British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Bradford, reports on Notes and Queries progress |
Petch, 2007: 22 |
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October |
by 15 |
Lane Fox visiting mother at Chesham Place |
Morning Post 15 October 1873 page 5 |
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November |
7 |
Mother dies |
Thompson, 1977: 30, 124, Pitt-Rivers art catalogue. |
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November |
22 |
Items obtained from Egypt |
PRM Accession book |
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November |
by 26 |
Returns to command at Guildford from mother's funeral in Yorkshire |
Morning Post 26 November 1873 page 5 |
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December |
8 |
Item obtained from Burma |
PRM Accession book |
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December |
13 |
Lane Fox at prize-giving of Lambeth Volunteers at Kensington |
The Times 17 December 1873 |
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December |
No days |
Items acquired from Guildford [surface finds] |
PRM Accession book |
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No day |
Lane Fox elected vice-president Anthropological Institute for 1873 |
Peter Rivière |
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Lane Fox concludes arrangements to show his collection at Bethnal Green Museum with South Kensington Museum authorities |
Chapman, 1981: 373 |
Chapman says it happened during 'winter' |
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Possible excavation at Ynys Lyrad with W.O. Stanley? |
Bowden, 1991: 77, quoting Smith 1984, 1987. |
possibly during usual stay in North Wales in summer / autumn time either 1873 or 1874 |
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