A year in the life: 1850

See 1827-1849

Month

Day

Event

Source of information

Notes

January

 

 

 

 

February

 

 

 

 

March

2

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

 

April

12, 14 or 15

Lane Fox's 23rd birthday

See 1827 entry, uncertainty about exact day of Pitt-Rivers' birth

 

May

 

 

 

 

June

 

 

 

 

July

 

 

 

 

August

2

Lane Fox promoted Lieutenant and Captain by purchase

Thompson, 1977: 122; Gray, 1905: x; London Gazette (21123: 2123)

 

September

1

Lane Fox's battalion moved to St George's Knightsbridge

Thompson, 1977: 15

 

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

 

November

 

 

 

 

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

 

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