A year in the life: 1899

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Event

Source of information

Notes

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April

12, 14 or 15

Pitt-Rivers' 72nd birthday

See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdate

 

May

4

Ecclesiastical preferments

The Times 4 May 1899

 

May

14

Pitt-Rivers arrives at Bournemouth and Boscombe for season

Manchester Guardian 14 May 1899

 

June

 

 

 

 

July

6

Pitt-Rivers purchases Benin bronze for 50 guineas at sale of J C Stevens, King Street, Covent Garden. He may well have bought other objects – sale included Jivaro head, which went for 17 guineas.

The Times 6 July 1899

 

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October

 

 

 

 

November

20

Pitt-Rivers adds codicil to will concerning the museum at Farnham. He is very ill

Will

 

December

 

 

 

 

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Balfour requests portrait of Pitt-Rivers for display in PRM

Source unknown

 

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3rd edition of Notes and Queries published, this is the last edition to which Pitt-Rivers directly contributed

Petch, 2007: 23

 

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India Room added to Larmer Gardens

Thompson, 1977: 80

House obtained at 1890 Earls Court Indian Exhibition [Dudley Buxton, 1929: 14]

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Harold Gray resigns as Pitt-Rivers' secretary and assistant on Cranborne Chase excavations

Thompson, 1977: 94

 

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