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A year in the life: 1889
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January |
18 |
Pitt-Rivers stands for Dorsetshire County Council |
The Times 18 January 1889 |
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February |
21 |
Pitt-Rivers attends meeting of Society of Antiquaries |
Athenaeum 3201 2 March 1889 p.283-4 |
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March |
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April |
1-5 |
Pitt-Rivers visits Wiltshire as Inspector of Ancient Monuments |
National Archives workbook 39/10 |
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April |
2-17 |
Pitt-Rivers excavating Wansdyke |
Thompson, 1977: 126 |
National Archives workbook 39/10 confirms at Wansdyke by 4.4.1889 |
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April |
12, 14 or 15 |
Pitt-Rivers's 62nd birthday |
See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdate |
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April |
25 |
Pitt-Rivers attends wedding of Alexander Lane Fox at St Peters, Eaton Square, London |
Morning Post 26 April 1889 p. 5 |
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May |
7 |
Pitt-Rivers attends Levée |
Morning Post 8 May 1889 p. 4 |
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May |
28 |
Pitt-Rivers attends meeting of Anthropological Institute and exhibits skeletal finds from excavations at Hunsbury Camp, Northampton and Llantwit, Cardiff |
Peter Rivière |
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May |
30 |
Pitt-Rivers attends Queen's State Concert at Buckingham Palace |
Morning Post 1 June 1889 p. 7 |
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June |
1 |
Pitt-Rivers attends Lady Wimborne's reception at Arlington Street, London |
Manchester Guardian 2 June 1889 |
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June |
3 |
Pitt-Rivers attends annual dinner of Grenadier Guards Club in London |
Morning Post 5 June 1889 |
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June |
25 |
Pitt-Rivers attends meeting of Anthropological Institute, Balfour reads paper about composite bows, Pitt-Rivers contributes to discussion and continues discussion in writing after meeting |
JAI 19 (1890): 213-215; 220-250 |
JAI 19 (1890): 213-215 refers to exhibits in PRM. 1884.16.1-2? |
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July |
4 |
Pitt-Rivers attends garden party at Marlborough House in London |
Morning Post 5 July 1889 p. 6 |
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July |
6 |
Pitt-Rivers buys pictures at Christie's in London |
The Times 9 July 1889 |
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July |
17 |
Pitt-Rivers attends conference of delegates of all leading archaeological societies at Burlington House in London |
Notes on Art and Archaeology Academy 898 20 July 1889 p. 45 9 July 1889 |
More here: ALLEN, J ROMILLY, THE CONFERENCE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETIES., Athenaeum (London, 1830), 3221 (1889:July 20) p.104; and here NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS., British Architect, (1889:July 26) p.56. |
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July - September |
27 July to 13 September? |
Pitt-Rivers carries out Inspector's tour of Scotland, for part of time it is his assistant alone who carries on tour as Pitt-Rivers returns to London |
Thompson, 1977: 68, 126. National Archives workbook 39/3 and 39/8 and 39/13 |
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August |
1 |
Pitt-Rivers returns to London leaving Gray and Tomkin to do tour [Mrs Rivers ill, Pitt-Rivers informed by telegram] |
National Archives workbook 39/13 |
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August |
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Pitt-Rivers in Scotland, buys objects in Edinburgh around 19.8.1889, according to CUL volume but see entries above and below |
Thompson, 1977: 126; CUL Volumes II 573, 588 |
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August |
29 |
Pitt-Rivers returns to Scotland to resume Inspectors tour |
National Archives workbook 39/13 page 28 |
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November |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers excavating at Bokerley Dyke and Woodyates |
Bowden, 1991: 118 |
According to Bowden work carried on from November 1889 and May 1890 |
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December |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers excavating at Bokerley Dyke and Woodyates |
Bowden, 1991: 118 |
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Pitt-Rivers publishes ‘Discussion of Govr Moloney’s ‘Exhibition of Bow from Yoruba’ JAI 19 [1889] 214-5; ‘Remarks on the paper ‘On the Structure and Affinities of the Composite Bow’ by Henry Balfour’ JAI 19 [1889] 246-50 |
See relevant journals |
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First year Pitt-Rivers uses typewriter and camera in record keeping |
Thompson, 1977: 95 |
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Pitt-Rivers investigates St John's House on his estate to find out history |
Gray, 1905: xxiii |
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Francis Reader, one of Pitt-Rivers' assistants, dismissed |
Bowden, 1991: 164; Thompson, 1977: 94 |
Thompson calls him G.W. Reader |
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Marriage of Pitt-Rivers' oldest son, Alexander |
Gray, 1905: xxiii |
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Pitt-Rivers' assistant, Tomkin sent to Polytechnic in London for instruction in photography and drawing |
Thompson, 1977: 95 |
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Pitt-Rivers gives talk to Blackmore Museum on the Uses and Arrangement of Arts Museums |
Adrian Green, S&SWM from 1889-90 Annual Report. |
Obviously this could also have taken place in 1890 as well. |
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