A year in the life: 1851

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Month

Day

Event

Source of information

Notes

January

 

 

 

 

February

 

 

 

 

March

1

Lane Fox's battalion moves back to Windsor Castle

Thompson, 1977: 15

 

April

12, 14 or 15

Lane Fox's 24th birthday

See 1827 entry, uncertainty about exact day of Pitt-Rivers' birth

 

May

1

Great Exhibition opens by Queen Victoria

http://www.information-britain.co.uk/famdates.php?id=352

 

May

28

Lane Fox attends levée on promotion as Captain

Manchester Guardian and Observer 1 June 1851

 

June

 

 

 

 

July

 

 

 

 

August

 

 

 

 

September

1

Lane Fox's battalion moves to Tower of London

Thompson, 1977: 15

 

October

15

Great Exhibition closes

http://www.information-britain.co.uk/famdates.php?id=352

It is not known when (or, indeed, if ) P-R visited the exhibition

November

 

 

 

 

December

 

 

 

 

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Lane Fox joined Army Rifle committee

Bowden, 1991: 15

 

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Testing new rifles at Woolwich

Thompson, 1977: 122

 

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Lane Fox started collecting locks and keys

Chapman, 1981; Thompson, 1977: 122; Pitt-Rivers, 1883: title page

 

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Lane Fox's visiting Vincennes, France and Rome, examines rifle training

Lane Fox, 1854. Treatise on Instruction of Musketry. Hythe School of Musketry, Hythe, UK pages 32-33; Chapman, 1981: Chapter 1

This appears to be the only mention of this trip, he may be mistaken about the year as of course he travelled to France and Italy in 1852 for this purpose. Or perhaps he is right and the later sources are wrong?

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