Month

Day

Event

Source of information

Notes

January

February

March

No days

Lane Fox ordered to resume duties as musketry instructor

Chapman, 1981: 59

April

12, 14 or 15

Lane Fox's 28th birthday

See 1827 for uncertainty about exact date

May

No day

Lane Fox sails to Malta

Thompson, 1977: 26, 122

According to Thompson, 1977: 26 little is known of P-R's 2 year stay in Malta except he was involved in rifle training

May

8

Lane Fox mentioned in letters re 'the war in the East'

The Times 8 May 1855

June

July

August

20

Death of Granville Beckford Pitt-Rivers, second son of 4th Baron Rivers  and then heir

See here

One of the chain of links that lead to Pitt-Rivers inheritance

September

October

November

2

First son, Alexander, born in Malta

Thompson, 1977: 122

December