Month

Day

Event

Source of information

Notes

January

February

No day

Lane Fox reads Plato

Thompson, 1977: 19, 123

March

By around now, the dispute over inquiry into Lane Fox's training methods ends and Lane Fox is  acquitted

Chapman, 1981: 105-6

Early in 1861

No days

Lane Fox elected to Ethnological Society of London

Chapman, 1981 Chapter 4

April

12, 14 or 15

Lane Fox's 34th birthday

See 1827 for uncertainty about exact date

May

20

Lane Fox reads second paper to United Services Institute [USI] 'On a model illustrating the parabolic theory ...'

Chapman, 1981: 106; Thompson, 1977: 28

May

23

Lane Fox appointed to position re the 1862 International Exhibition

The Times 23 May 1861

June

No days

Sales of surplus collection of the United Services Institution by Sotheby's in London, Lane Fox attends

Chapman, 1981: 68

Chapman lists the sale catalogues of Sotheby's as evidence of Lane Fox buying at these sales. He apparently bought 'a vase .... a model of a S. American hut and a Swiss cottage, a Chinese wooden harmonican and a small portrait of Boadicea'.

July

1

Letter to Morning Post about musketry training

Morning Post page 2 1 July 1861

My thanks to Dan Hicks for pointing this letter our

July

24

Sale of items from USI by Sotheby [PR acquired pieces from sale]

Sotheby papers held at Bodleian Library, Chapman, 1981: 68

See above

August

September

Autumn

No days

Lane Fox attends his first meeting of Ethnological Society

Chapman, 1981 Chapter 4

October

November

8

No day

8 November, British mail steamer Trent boarded by a Union ship 

Lane Fox assigned to 'special service'

Chris Evans pers comm

Chapman, 1981: 107

December

2

Lane Fox sails for Canada on special service

Thompson, 1977: 29, 123; Chapman, 1981: Chapter 3; Hamilton, F.W. 1874. The Origin and History of the First or Grenadier Guards (Volume III). London: John Murray. p. 321

He was presumably have been one of the force of men sent out as a precaution / deterrent to Canada as a reaction to the American Civil War. His job was to establish another training school according to Chapman

December

6

Decision taken to send troops to North America following Trent incident, the first troops sail 7 December

Chris Evans pers comm

December

13

Lane Fox promoted Lieutenant-Colonel for particular service

London Gazette (22576: 5374)

No month

No days

Lane Fox joins Ethnological Society of London

Thompson, 1977: 33 Chapman, 1981: 174 and on; Chapman, 1981: 616

Chapman, 1981: 616 suggests that he joined 1860-1 as result of recruitment drive for members

No month

No days

William Owen Stanley digs for first time at Ty Mawr

Bowden, 1991: 73

See August and Autumn 1868 for second excavation with P-R