Month

Day

Event

Source of information

Notes

[Early in year] No month

No days

Lane Fox decides to return to active Army service, takes command of West Surrey Brigade Depot, Guildford. Living at Uplands, Merrow

Chapman, 1981: 368; Thompson, 1977: 51, 124

Thompson says it is early in year

January

11

Item acquired from William Augustus Lane Fox-Pitt

PRM Accession book

January

16-30 (at least if not longer)

25 examples of Cypriote metalwork from founding collection displayed in the Bronze exhibition at the Society of Antiquaries

Karageorghis, V., Cypriote Art in the PRM' 2009

January

16

Items acquired from Axe Valley

PRM Accession book

February

28

Lane Fox promoted Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel at Brigade Depot with effect from 1 April 1873

London Gazette (23954: 1307)

March

April

1

Lane Fox present at meeting of Anthropological Institute, exhibits Peruvian pottery

JAI 3, (1874): 100-4

April

12, 14 or 15

Lane Fox's 46th birthday

See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdate

April

22

Lane Fox present at meeting of Anthropological Institute, contributes to discussion

JAI 3, (1874): 114-5

April

26

Lane Fox loans Peruvian skull for exhibition at Royal Society conversazione at Burlington House

Morning Post April 28 1873 page 6

April

27

Lane Fox attends Grenadier Guards'  regimental dinner

Morning Post May 29 1873 page 3

May

6

Lane Fox in Chair for meeting of Anthropological Institute

JAI 3, (1874): 137-9

May

circa 17

Report that Fox will deposit collection at Bethnal Green Museum (so obviously agreed by SKM then)

Science Gossip, Athenaeum 2377 (17 May 1873) p. 633

June

4

Model boat acquired [may also be August]

PRM Accession book

July

11

Lane Fox attends shooting match at Wimbledon

The Times 11 July 1873

August

4

Model boat acquired [may also be June]

PRM Accession book

August

26, 27

Model boats acquired

PRM Accession book

August

27

Item acquired from W Africa

PRM Accession book

September

No day

Lane Fox attends British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Bradford, reports on Notes and Queries progress

Petch, 2007: 22

October

by 15

Lane Fox visiting mother at Chesham Place

Morning Post 15 October 1873 page 5

November

7

Mother dies

Thompson, 1977: 30, 124, Pitt-Rivers art catalogue.

November

22

Items obtained from Egypt

PRM Accession book

November

by 26

Returns to command at Guildford from mother's funeral in Yorkshire

Morning Post 26 November 1873 page 5

December

8

Item obtained from Burma

PRM Accession book

December

13

Lane Fox at prize-giving of Lambeth Volunteers at Kensington

The Times 17 December 1873

December

No days

Items acquired from Guildford [surface finds]

PRM Accession book

No month

No day

Lane Fox elected vice-president Anthropological Institute for 1873

Peter Rivière

No month

No day

Lane Fox concludes arrangements to show his collection at Bethnal Green Museum with South Kensington Museum authorities

Chapman, 1981: 373

Chapman says it happened during 'winter'

?No month

?No day

Possible excavation at Ynys Lyrad with W.O. Stanley?

Bowden, 1991: 77, quoting Smith 1984, 1987.

possibly during usual stay in North Wales in summer / autumn time either 1873 or 1874