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A year in the life: 1884
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January |
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Tylor starts in post as Reader |
University Gazette, vol. XIV November 6, 1883: 89 |
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January |
No day |
Tylor's first lecture in anthropology at Oxford |
Source unknown |
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January |
7 |
Pitt-Rivers attends opening of Dorset County Museum and gives address |
Morning Post 2 January 1884 p. 3 |
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January |
7 |
Pitt-Rivers has opened his private museum at Farnham by this date |
Address on the Opening of Dorset County Museum |
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February |
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March |
4/ 5 |
Pitt-Rivers appointed Sheriff of Dorsetshire |
The Times 5 March 1884 [5th]; London Gazette (25325: 1117) [4th] |
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April |
12, 14 or 15 |
Lubbock proposes marriage to Alice Fox Pitt, she accepts |
Patton, 2007: 158 |
This is Easter Saturday |
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April |
12, 14 or 15 |
Pitt-Rivers' 57th birthday |
See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdate |
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May |
15 |
Pitt-Rivers purchases Cesnola material, Sotheby auction |
Sotheby catalogue, Bodleian Library, PRM accession book |
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May |
17 |
Pitt-Rivers attends wedding of daughter Alice to John Lubbock at St Peters Eaton Square, wedding breakfast at Grosvenor Gardens |
Morning Post 19 May 1884 p. 5; Patton, 2007: 158 |
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May |
20 |
Deed of gift of founding collection to University of Oxford signed |
Deed of gift, University Archives, UC/FF/60/2/2; PRM ms collections PRM box 2 20 |
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May |
31 |
Pitt-Rivers visits Castle Dykes Northampton |
National Archives workbook 39/14 page 114 |
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June |
3 |
Pitt-Rivers inspecting Wayland's Smithy, Uffington and White Horse Hill, Oxfordshire (then Berkshire) and Barbury Castle |
National Archives workbook 39/12 and 39/14 |
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June |
8 |
Pitt-Rivers inspecting Pentre Ifan, Arthurs Quoit, Newport, Nevern, Wolfcastle Motte, and other sites in Pembrokeshire |
According to this website and National Archives workbook 39/12 and 39/14 |
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June |
23 |
Pitt-Rivers attends Garden Party at Lambeth Palace |
Manchester Guardian 24 June 1884 |
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June |
No days |
Arthur Evans appointed Keeper of Ashmolean Museum |
Larson, 2007: 94 |
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June |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers carries out inspection visit of Midlands, Wales |
Thompson, 1977:66, 125 |
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June |
10 |
Symm and Co. appointed to build extension for PRM, works starts Spring 1885 |
Larson 2007:94 |
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June |
14 |
Items acquired from Kew Gardens |
PRM accession book |
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July |
4 |
Moseley and Franks agree value of Pitt-Rivers collection in Oxford of £10,000 |
University Archives UC/FF/60/2/1 |
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July |
7 |
Pitt-Rivers attends levée |
The Times 9 July 1884 |
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July |
19 |
Pitt-Rivers visiting Bakewell, Derbyshire and Hob's Hurst House |
National Archives workbook 39/12 and 39/15 |
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July |
22 |
Items recorded as being removed from South Kensington Museum [SKM] by Pitt-Rivers |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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July |
29 |
Items recorded as being removed from SKM by Pitt-Rivers |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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August / September |
25 [or so] to after September 3 |
Pitt-Rivers visits Scotland as Inspector including Edin's Hall, Aberlemno, St Vigeans, sites in Aberdeenshire and Highlands etc |
National Archives workbooks 39/6, 39/12 and 39/15 and 39/16 |
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September |
9 |
Visiting dealers in Edinburgh |
Thompson, 1977:66, 125, CUL volume 1. National Archives workbook 39/12 |
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September |
25 |
Pitt-Rivers has letter published on Pen Pits, signed himself Inspector of Ancient Monuments |
The Times 25 September 1884 |
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September |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers carries out inspection visit of East coast of Scotland |
Cambridge University Volumes Volume 2 page 99 |
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September |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers excavating Woodcuts |
Bowden, 1991: 114 |
Bowden suggests work completed December 1885 |
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October |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers excavating Woodcuts |
Thompson, 1977:125-6 |
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November |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers excavating Woodcuts |
Thompson, 1977:125-6 |
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December |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers excavating Woodcuts |
Thompson, 1977:125-6 |
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Pitt-Rivers published 1884 [a] Address delivered at the Opening of the Dorset County Museum, Dorchester January 7 1884. J Foster Dorchester, UK; 1884 Report on excavations in the Pen Pits near Penselwood, Somerset. London Privately printed, Address delivered at Annual Meeting of the Dorchester School of Art' Dorset County Chronicle 7 February 1884 |
See relevant journals |
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Pitt-Rivers tours Oxfordshire archaeological sites as part of Inspector job |
Chapman, 1981: 496 |
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