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A year in the life: 1850
See 1827-1849
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January |
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February |
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March |
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Lane Fox donates the model of a bridge at Alcantara to the Royal United Service Institution |
John Bull 2 March 1850 p. 144 |
Thanks to Dan Hicks for spotting this |
March |
1 |
Lane Fox's battalion moves back to Portman Street, London |
Thompson, 1977: 15 |
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April |
12, 14 or 15 |
Lane Fox's 23rd birthday |
See 1827 entry, uncertainty about exact day of Pitt-Rivers' birth |
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May |
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June |
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July |
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August |
2 |
Lane Fox promoted Lieutenant and Captain by purchase |
Thompson, 1977: 122; Gray, 1905: x; London Gazette (21123: 2123) |
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September |
1 |
Lane Fox's battalion moved to St George's Knightsbridge |
Thompson, 1977: 15 |
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October |
23 |
Alice Stanley's father, Edward John Stanley, succeeds to title of Lord Stanley on death of father |
Chapman, 1981: Chapter 1; Thompson, 1977: 19; date of succession taken from wikipedia entry for father's father |
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November |
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December |
20 |
George Horace Pitt-Rivers, eldest son of 4th Baron Rivers (and therefore heir) dies |
See here |
One more link in the chain to Pitt-Rivers inheriting |
Go to 1851