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A year in the life: 1866
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January |
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February |
5 |
Item acquired from City of London |
PRM accession book |
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February |
19 |
Lane Fox acts as proscecuting officer, court martial of 2 non-commissioned officers in Cork |
Thompson, 1977: 123; Chapman, 1981: 247; The Times 21 February 1866 |
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March |
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April |
9 |
Lane Fox reads first paper to Archaeological Institute about Roovesmore Fort |
Chapman, 1981: 248; Twohig, 1987: 43 |
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April |
11 |
Sixth and last son, Arthur, born |
Bowden, 1991: 35; Chapman, 1981 Chapter 5 |
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April |
13 |
Items acquired from City of London |
PRM accession book |
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April |
12, 14 or 15 |
Lane Fox's 39th birthday |
See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdate |
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April |
28 |
George Pitt-Rivers, fourth Baron Rivers dies and his title and estate passes to his fourth son Henry Peter Pitt-Rivers |
See here |
He was one of the links in the chain that led to Pitt-Rivers inheritance |
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May |
12 |
Parliamentary debate on musketry practice |
The Times 12 May 1866 |
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June |
No days, 10, 22 |
Items obtained from City of London |
PRM accession book |
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June |
22 |
Items obtained from City of London / Clutterbuck |
PRM accession book |
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[Summer] No months |
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Lane Fox appointed to steering committee of Archaeological Institute |
Chapman, 1981: 251 |
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[Summer] No months |
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Lane Fox and family spend summer at Alderley, Cheshire |
Chapman, 1981: 248 |
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July |
25 |
Lane Fox in command of detachment of Guards sent to keep order at demonstration of Reform movement in Hyde Park |
Manchester Guardian 25 July 1866 |
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August |
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September |
No days |
Items acquired from Smithfield, London |
PRM accession book |
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October |
20 |
Lane Fox reads in Times about finds at London Wall and starts investigations |
Thompson, 1977: 46; Bowden, 1991: 64; Chapman, 1981: 249 |
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October |
24, no days |
London Wall excavations |
Thompson, 1977: 123, Dates from PRM accession book |
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October |
no days |
Lane Fox suggests Caulfield should apply to be Under-Secretary of Archaeological Society of Great Britain and Ireland |
Twohig, 1987: 42 |
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November |
2 |
Lane Fox attends Archaeological Institute meeting and discusses London Wall finds |
Chapman, 1981: 249 |
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November |
5, 18, 19, 26, no days |
London Wall excavations. Items on 5.11 appear to be from Clutterbuck collection |
Thompson, 1977: 123, Dates from PRM accession book |
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December |
7 |
Lane Fox exhibits heart in lead cist at meeting of Royal Archaeological Institute, first time he is known to have exhibited an artefact at a learned society |
Lane Fox, A.H. ‘Account of a human heart in a case found in Christ’s Church, Cork’. Archaeological Journal 24 [1866] pp. 71-72 |
NB it seems likely that he had earlier taken the objects that were subjects of papers to learned societies |
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December |
10, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, no days |
London Wall excavations |
[Bowden], Dates from PRM accession book |
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December |
13 |
Lane Fox exhibits peg shaped item from Ireland at meeting of Society of Antiquaries of London |
Lane Fox, A.H. ‘On an ivory peg-top shaped object from Ireland’ Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries in London 2dS 3 [1866] pp. 395-396 |
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December |
18 |
Lane Fox reads paper about London Wall excavations to Anthropological Society |
Pitt Rivers/ Lane Fox A.H. 1866 ‘On Objects of the Roman period found at great depth in the vicinity of the old London Wall’ Archaeological Journal 24 [1866] 61-4 |
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December |
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Lane Fox elected to Council of Anthropological Society |
Chapman, 1981: 251 |
He won over Thomas Pate by a single vote |
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Lane Fox guest of the Duke and Duchess of Richmond at Goodwood Park |
I.E.A. Dolby (ed.) 1866. The Journal of the Household Brigade for the year 1866. London: W. Clowes and Sons. p. 77 |
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