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A year in the life: 1883
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January |
1 |
Pitt-Rivers takes up duties as Inspector of Ancient Monuments |
Thompson, 1977: 64, 73, 125; Chapman 1981 Chapter 7 |
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January |
23 |
AGM of Anthropological Institute, Pitt-Rivers 'unavoidably absent', he is elected vice president |
Peter Rivière |
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January |
19 |
Hebdomadal Council of University of Oxford considers financial aspects of accepting Pitt-Rivers collection |
Larson, 2007: 92, University archives HC/1/2/3 and UM/C/3/3; Report PRM box 1 1-33 8-11 |
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February |
2 |
Ecclesiastical preferments |
The Times 2 February 1883 |
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February |
4, 5 and on |
Pitt-Rivers has correspondence with Tylor about Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford founding collection ensues |
Pitt Rivers in London to Tylor, 5 February 1883, S&SW Museum P-R correspondence L.106, Chapman, 1981: 480 |
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February |
6 |
Report of the Hebdomadal Council on Pitt-Rivers collection circulated |
University Gazette; PRM ms collections PRM box 1 1-33 12-13 |
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February |
15, 21 |
Tylor lectures on Pitt-Rivers' collection at Oxford in the 'Museum Lecture-Room', he cannot show any artefacts because they are still in London |
Chapman, 1981: 480; letters from Tylor asking Pitt-Rivers about points he will raise S&SWM L79 L80 & L83 |
presumably the lectures were held in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History |
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February |
end |
Announcement that Pitt-Rivers' offer of collection to come before Oxford Convocation on 7th |
Morning Post 28 February p. 3; The Times 1 March 1883 |
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March |
7 |
Proposal carried in Convocation despite opposition on financial grounds |
The Times 8 March 1883 |
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March |
10 |
Possibly Pitt-Rivers attends Sotheby sale to purchase Egyptian material |
Alice Stevenson pers comm, from Petrie's diaries for 1877-1884 |
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March |
10 |
Tylor appointed Keeper of University Museum, Oxford |
Larson, 2007: 92 |
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March |
19 |
Pitt-Rivers elected Resident Member of Asiatic Society |
Athenaeum, 2891 24 March 1883 p. 381 [Peter Rivière] |
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March |
20 |
Pitt-Rivers elected honorary member of Anthropological Society of Washington |
Transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington, 2 (Feb. 7, 1882 - May 15, 1883): 93-4 [Peter Rivière] |
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April |
12 |
Announcement of Royal Literary Fund dinner to be held on 2 May, Pitt-Rivers is steward |
The Times 12 April 1883 |
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April |
12, 14 or 15 |
Pitt-Rivers' 56th birthday |
See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdate |
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April |
26 |
Pitt-Rivers' first recorded activity as Inspector, inspecting Kits Coty in Kent |
National Archives workbook 39/14 pp 2-5; 2012.79.1.1-2 |
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May |
3-? |
London to Marlborough to Devil's Den, then West Kennet, Silbury Hill, Avebury, Devizes to Bath then on to Kingston Lisle, Uffington / White Horse Hill (with H.H. Winwood) in Oxfordshire |
National Archives workbook 39/14 page 14-22 |
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May |
5 |
Pitt-Rivers attends Marchioness of Salisbury's reception at Arlington Street |
Manchester Guardian 6 May 1883 |
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May |
24 |
Pitt-Rivers' solicitors ask for an Inventory of the Collection from SKM |
S&SW Museum P-R correspondence P132 |
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May |
30 |
SKM confirms to Pitt-Rivers' solicitors that they are preparing an inventory |
S&SW Museum P-R correspondence P132 Letter from Duncombe |
It is not known if this inventory ever existed |
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May |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers contributes to International Exhibition of Ethnology at Amsterdam |
S&SW Museum P-R correspondence L.19 |
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June |
1 |
Pitt-Rivers attends and purchases large number of Cesnola pieces at Sotheby auction |
See CUL volumes / Sotheby catalogues Bodleian Library |
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June |
2 |
Pitt-Rivers and wife stay with Tylors in Oxford |
Univ. of California Tylor papers |
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June |
7 |
Pitt-Rivers carries out visit as Inspector of Ancient Monuments to Rollright stones |
National Archives workbook 39/14 page 22 |
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June |
12 |
Pitt-Rivers attends meeting of Anthropological Institute, Pitt-Rivers comments on implements from Rivett-Carnac and a paper by Tylor. |
Peter Rivière |
This appears to be the last meeting he is known to have attended [Peter Rivière] |
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June |
23 |
Pitt-Rivers attends garden party at Lambeth Palace |
Morning Post 25 June 1883 p. 6 |
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June |
28 |
Pitt-Rivers attends meeting of Society of Antiquaries and exhibits locks and keys |
Academy 24: 583 7 July 1883 |
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June |
30 |
Pitt-Rivers visits Danes Camp [Hunsbury], Duston and East Barton in Northamptonshire, |
National Archives workbook 39/14 pp 37-39 |
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July |
1 |
Pitt-Rivers appears to have been excavating at Hunsbury Camp, near Northampton with H. Pressland |
Volume 1 CUL volumes, page 263 |
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July |
6 |
Pitt-Rivers attends William Spottiswoode's funeral at Westminster Abbey |
The Times 7 July 1883 |
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July |
12-14 |
Pitt-Rivers visits Stantonbury Camp and Stoney Littleton near Bath, and Uleybury |
National Archives workbook 39/14 page 40 et seq |
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July |
31 and on |
Pitt-Rivers attends Annual Meeting of Royal Archaeological Institute at Lewes, Pitt-Rivers president of antiquities section |
The Times 12 July 1883 |
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August |
1-5 |
Pitt-Rivers addresses Archaeological Institute in Lewes, talks on investigating deneholes, paper on excavations of camps in Kent and Sussex |
Thompson, 1977: 125; The Times 6 August 1883 |
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August - September |
29 August to 9 September |
Pitt-Rivers journeys as Inspector of Ancient Monuments to Derbyshire, Cumbria and ends up in Edinburgh |
Thompson, 1977: 66, 69, 125; National Archives workbook 39/14 pp 59 et seq |
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September |
1 |
Report of excavations at Winkelbury and references to Larmer Tree and Farnham Museum. Reference to recent meeting of Dorset Field Club held in library at Rushmore |
The Times 1 September 1883 |
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September |
9 |
Pitt-Rivers travels from Edinburgh to London Acquired objects from dealers in Edinburgh during this stay dated 11 August |
National Archives workbook 39/14 page 99; CUL volume 1 |
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September |
14 |
Petrie visits South Kensington Museum to visit Pitt-Rivers' collections |
Alice Stevenson, pers comm from Petrie diaries for 1877-1884 |
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October |
22 - 4 November |
Pitt-Rivers excavating at Pen Pits |
Peter Rivière [see article here] |
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October |
No day |
Tylor takes up post as Keeper of the University Museum |
Larson, 2007: 92 |
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November |
13 |
Pitt-Rivers nominated Sheriff of Dorsetshire |
The Times 13 November 1883; London Gazette (25287: 5359) |
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November |
No day |
Readership in Anthropology created by University of Oxford decree |
Larson, 2007: 93 |
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November |
No day |
Pitt-Rivers appointed President of London and Middlesex Archaeological Society [not clear when elected but in post by this date] |
Athenaeum 2925 (17 November 1883) |
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November |
before 16 |
Reported that Pitt-Rivers 'for last few days' had been examining site in Penselwood [Pen Pits] |
Morning Post 16 November 1883 p. 5 |
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November |
No day |
Lubbock stays for weekend with Pitt-Rivers [presumably at Rushmore], Lubbock's diary records a number of walks and talks with Alice, one of Pitt-Rivers' daughters |
Patton, 2007: 157-8 |
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December |
No day |
Tylor appointed Reader in Anthropology |
Larson, 2007: 93, University Gazette, vol. XIV November 6, 1883: 89 |
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Bronze statue of hunter of early days by Sir Edgar Boehm installed at Larmer Grounds |
Dudley Buxton, 1929: 14, Pitt-Rivers' guide to gardens |
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Pitt-Rivers publishes Primitive Locks and Keys, Chatto and Windus; ‘On the Egyptian boomerang and its Affinities’ JAI 12 (1883) 454-463, p1-2; ‘Address to the Antiquarian section of the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute held at Lewes’ AJ 41 [1883] 58-78 |
See relevant journals |
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Pitt-Rivers' son, Alexander, elected Fellow Society of Antiquaries |
Bowden, 1991: 33-4 |
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