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A year in the life: 1880
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January |
No day |
Daughter Ursula marries William Charles Scott |
Chapman, 1981: Chapter 7 |
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February |
13 |
Delivery of items from Lane Fox to South Kensington Museum [SKM] |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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February |
14 |
Delivery of items from Lane Fox to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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February |
17 |
Delivery of items from Lane Fox to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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February |
19 |
Delivery of items from Lane Fox to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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March |
1 |
Delivery of items from Lane Fox to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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March |
9 |
Lane Fox attends meeting of Anthropological Institute |
Peter Rivière |
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March |
31 |
Horace Beckford later Pitt-Rivers 6th Baron Rivers dies without issue, Pitt-Rivers inherits title |
See here |
Last in chain of inheritance to Pitt-Rivers. Note that the 6th Baron inherited on 17 March 1867 and though he had 2 wives he did not have any heirs, so Pitt-Rivers must have had 'expectations' from 1867 |
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April |
5 |
Lane Fox attends funeral of Lord Rivers at Steepleton, Dorset |
The Times 6 April 1880 |
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April |
12, 14 or 15 |
Lane Fox's 53rd birthday |
See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdate |
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April |
13 |
Lane Fox chairs meeting of Anthropological Institute, contributes to discussions |
JAI 10 (1881): 109-123 |
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April |
14 |
Lane Fox begins thinking about future of collection at SKM |
Letter from P-R to R. Thompson SKM, P125 S&SWM P-R ms collections |
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April |
27 |
Lane Fox chairs meeting of Anthropological Institute, reads paper on Mount Caburn and exhibits objects |
JAI, 10 (1881): 137 |
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May |
6 |
Delivery of items from Lane Fox to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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May |
7 |
Item acquired in / from Scotland? |
PRM accession book |
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May |
13 |
Notice issued concerning Lord Rivers' will |
The Times 13 May 1880 |
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May |
13 |
Delivery of items from Lane Fox to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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May |
19 |
Delivery of items from Lane Fox to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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May |
25 |
The Queen on 25 May grants Lane Fox right to add name Pitt-Rivers after Fox and make appropriate changes to coat of arms |
London Gazette, 4 June 1880 (24852: 3326) |
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May |
25 |
Norman MacLeod on behalf of South Kensington Museum writes to John Lubbock, J. Fergusson, Prof Huxley, E.J. Poynter, P. Cunliffe Owen, Colonel Donnelly and George Rolleston asking them if they are prepared to serve on committee to consider Pitt-Rivers proposed development of his Ethnological collections at South Kensington Museum |
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June |
4 |
London Gazette publishes announcement of Pitt-Rivers' royal license to add new surname |
Chapman, 1981: Chapter 7 |
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June |
8 |
Pitt-Rivers chairs meeting of Anthropological Institute |
Peter Rivière |
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June |
20 |
Item obtained from UK ?Scotland |
PRM accession book |
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June |
22 |
Pitt-Rivers attends meeting of Anthropological Institute |
Peter Rivière |
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June |
22 |
Army gives Pitt-Rivers permission to add Pitt-Rivers to name |
London Gazette (24857: 3591) |
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June |
24 |
Delivery of items from Pitt-Rivers to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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June |
27 |
Pitt-Rivers writes to A.W. Franks about the future of his collection |
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June |
30 |
Pitt-Rivers attends levée at St James's Palace on change of name |
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July |
1 |
Pitt-Rivers writes again to Franks with further thoughts about the future of his collection |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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July |
3 |
Delivery of items from Pitt-Rivers to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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July |
7 |
Delivery of items from Pitt-Rivers to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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July |
14 |
Items acquired from Suffolk |
PRM accession book |
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August |
19, no days |
Item acquired from Auvergne, France |
PRM accession book |
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August |
9 and on |
Pitt-Rivers barrow-digging at Rushmore with Rolleston and H.H. Winwood |
Thompson, 1977: 125; Bowden, 1991: 108 |
Date given by Bowden |
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September |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers barrow-digging at Rushmore with Rolleston |
Thompson, 1977: 125 |
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September |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers in Paris, items acquired there |
PRM accession book |
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September |
17 |
Delivery of items from Pitt-Rivers to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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September |
18 |
Delivery of items from Pitt-Rivers to SKM, items marked as being in long box from Clermont Ferrand 7 September 1880 |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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September |
25 |
Delivery of items from Pitt-Rivers to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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By end September |
No days |
Items acquired from Auvergne, France |
PRM accession book |
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October |
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November |
1 |
Delivery of items from Pitt-Rivers to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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November |
9 |
Pitt-Rivers attends meeting of Anthropological Institute and contributes to discussion |
JAI 10 (1881): 374-380 |
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November |
12 |
Delivery of items from Pitt-Rivers to SKM [Note this item was entered out of date order in the green book for some reason] |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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November |
15 |
Delivery of items from Pitt-Rivers to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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November |
16 |
Delivery of items from Pitt-Rivers to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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November |
16 |
Pitt-Rivers member of Roman Villa Fund (Brading, Isle of Wight) |
The Times 16 November 1880 |
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December |
11 |
Delivery of items from Pitt-Rivers to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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December |
16 |
Delivery of items from Pitt-Rivers to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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December |
20 |
Delivery of items from Pitt-Rivers to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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No month |
No days |
Begins work on Larmer Gardens on own estate |
Thompson, 1977: 125 |
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No month |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers publishes ‘Excavations at Caesar’s Camp, near Folkestone conducted in 1878.’ |
Archaeologia 47 [1880] 429-65 |
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No month |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers' daughter Ursula marries Willy Scott |
Bowden, 1991: 35 |
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No month |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers possibly in Paris, acquiring objects |
PRM accession book |
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No month |
No days |
Items acquired from Anthropological Institute |
Report of Council of AI for 1880 [Peter Rivière] |
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No days |
Pitt-Rivers speaks at Society of Antiquaries meeting |
Academy 450 (Dec 18 1880) |
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No month |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers erects Temple at Larmer Grounds, which were first established during 1880 |
Pitt-Rivers' guide to the Grounds |
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