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A year in the life: 1899
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Pitt-Rivers' 72nd birthday |
See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdate |
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May |
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Ecclesiastical preferments |
The Times 4 May 1899 |
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May |
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Pitt-Rivers arrives at Bournemouth and Boscombe for season |
Manchester Guardian 14 May 1899 |
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Pitt-Rivers purchases Benin bronze for 50 guineas at sale of J C Stevens, King Street, Covent Garden. He may well have bought other objects – sale included Jivaro head, which went for 17 guineas. |
The Times 6 July 1899 |
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Pitt-Rivers adds codicil to will concerning the museum at Farnham. He is very ill |
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Balfour requests portrait of Pitt-Rivers for display in PRM |
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3rd edition of Notes and Queries published, this is the last edition to which Pitt-Rivers directly contributed |
Petch, 2007: 23 |
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India Room added to Larmer Gardens |
Thompson, 1977: 80 |
House obtained at 1890 Earls Court Indian Exhibition [Dudley Buxton, 1929: 14] |
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Harold Gray resigns as Pitt-Rivers' secretary and assistant on Cranborne Chase excavations |
Thompson, 1977: 94 |
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