Month

Day

Event

Source of information

Notes

January-June

26 February,

Lane Fox works on gravel deposits Thames Valley London

Thompson, 1977: 124, dates from PRM accession book

January

9

Lane Fox excavating Callow Hill, Oxfordshire

OW website

January

19

Lane Fox attends Anthropological Society meeting and comments on paper

JAS, 7 (1869): cxi-cxii

January

26

Lane Fox attends meeting of Ethnological Society and exhibits marble armlet and bronze spearhead, the latter was also shown at Society of Antiquaries

Chapman, 1981: 300

Date of showing at Society of Antiquaries unknown

January - February

No days [late Jan early Feb]

Lane Fox examines gravel terraces at Acton

Chapman, 1981: 306

February

9

Lane Fox reads Westropp's paper 'On cromlechs...' at Ethnological Society

Chapman, 1981: 300

February

No days [end]

Ethnological Society resolves to set up committee to look at classifying and registering all ethnological evidence. This acts on proposal of Lane Fox

Chapman, 1981: 305

March-April

No days

Lane Fox organizes series of special exhibits at Museum of Practical Geology for meetings of the Ethnological Society

Chapman, 1981: 152; Chapter 5

See special meetings of Ethnological Society. 2 meetings were held in each month

March

No days

Objects with this date from Acton gravels

PRM accession book

March

No days

2 special meetings of the Ethnological Society arranged by Lane Fox among others, 'Indian ethnology and archaelogy'. Exhibition contains some Lane Fox objects

Chapman, 1981: 308

Meetings had associated exhibitions

March

No days

Lubbock persuades Ethnological Society to set up sub-committee to 'ascertain the present state of prehistoric monuments in these islands and the best means for their preservation'. Committee comprises Lubbock, Huxley, John Evans and Lane Fox

Patton, 2007: 85

April

12, 14 or 15

Lane Fox's 42nd birthday

See 1827 for uncertainty about exact birthdate

April

No days

2 special meetings of the Ethnological Society arranged by Lane Fox among others, North American Indian tribes' and 'Races of New Zealand and Polynesia'

Chapman, 1981: 308

Meetings had associated exhibitions

May

No days, 1, 4, 10, 13, 15, 29

Objects with this date from Acton gravels

PRM accession book, dates from PRM accession book

May

22

Items acquired from Clutterbuck collection

PRM accession book

May

No days

Items acquired from Bryce Wright

PRM accession book

June

5, 14

Objects with these dates from Acton gravels

PRM accession book

June

18

Lane Fox gives third lecture 'Primitive Warfare'  to United Services Institute

Thompson, 1977: 124; Chapman, 1981: 287

June

23

Lane Fox attends Lord Stanley's funeral at Alderley (his father-in-law)

The Times 25 June 1869

July

7

Items acquired from Suffolk

PRM accession book

July

2, 10, 14, 15, 21

Objects with these dates from Acton gravels

PRM accession book

August

No days

Lane Fox fieldwalking at Stonehenge

OW website, dates PRM accession book; Bowden, 1991: 75

August

3, 9, 12, 16, No days

Items acquired from Acton gravels

PRM accession book

August

24

Lane Fox attends British Association for the Advancement of Science [BAAS] meeting at Exeter, gives paper on finds in Thames Valley and Acton

Anthropological Review, 7, 27 1869: 414-32; The Times 25 August 1869; Chapman, 1981: Chapter VI

August

28, 30, 31

Fieldwalking Gloucestershire with Kate Amberley after BAAS meeting. Uley, Hetty Pegler's Tump. 28 August visit Hampton Common. Visits Wheybury on 31 August, crawl inside tumulus

Thompson, 1977: 49; Bowden, 1991: 94; 101; Russell, Amberley Papers II 279-80; Chapman 1981 chapter VI

Dates PRM accession book and Thompson. Dates at end from Amberley Papers

September

no days

Visit with Alice to Penrhyn Castle, North Wales, home of his aunt Lady Penrhyn wife of Edward Gordon Douglas

Chapman 1981 chapter VI

September

No days

Dorchester Dykes

Source unknown

September

No days

Items acquired from Suffolk

PRM accession book

September

2, 25, No days

Items acquired from Acton gravels

PRM accession book

September

9

Dorchester Dykes, Sinodun Camp fieldwalking

PRM accession book

October

14

Lane Fox writes to Caulfield [Bodleian Library Caulfield papers Folio 183] to suggest committee be formed of him, Harkness, Westropp, Day and Brash to report on megalithic monuments in Cork and Kerry

Twohig, 1987: 42

October

16, poss. other days too

Lane Fox digging barrows Bangor, North Wales while staying with relatives in Penrhyn Castle

Thompson, 1977: 50, 124; Chapman, 1981: 330; Bowden, 1991: 75 [date in Bowden]

October

No days

Items acquired from Suffolk

PRM accession book

October

2, 8, no days

Items acquired from Sussex

PRM accession book

November

9

Lane Fox reads paper on proposed exploration of Stonehenge by BAAS to Ethnological Society

JESL, 2,1 (1870): 1-5; Chapman, 1981: 328

November

23

Lane Fox attends meeting of Ethnological Society and comments on paper

JESL 2, 1 (1870): 39-43

December

7

Lane Fox attends meeting of Ethnological Society and comments on paper

JESL 2, 1 (1870): 45-73

No month

No days

Lane Fox excavating Hope's Nose Torbay

OW website, PRM accession book

This is unconfirmed, note that P-R holidayed in Torbay as a child [Chapman, 1981: 6]

No month

No days

Lane Fox co-editor of Ethnological Society journal with Lubbock, Huxley and others. 1869-70 he is Honorary General Secretary of society

JESL, 1, 1 (1869).

No month

No days

Lane Fox displays items from Irrawaddy India at meetings of Ethnological Society

JESL, 1, 2 (1869): 89

No month

No days

Sister-in-law describes trip to Hampton Court with Lane Fox

Chapman, 1981: 118