A year in the life: 1865

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Month

Day

Event

Source of information

Notes

January

20

Items acquired from London

PRM accession book

 

January - 14 March

No day

Lane Fox  joins Anthropological Society

JAS, 3 (1865): clxiii [P.R.]; Chapman, 1981 Chapter 4: 8

 

February

 

 

 

 

March

 

 

 

 

April

12, 14 or 15

Lane Fox's 38th birthday

See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdate

 

April

No day

Lubbock publishes Prehistoric Times

Patton, 2007: 69

 

May

No days

Items from Bousfield collection acquired

PRM accession book

 

May

10

Item acquired from John Evans

PRM accession book

 

June

21

Item acquired from City of London

PRM accession book

 

July

No days

Item from Northern Ireland obtained

PRM accession book

 

August

No days

Items obtained from Tokenhouse Yard, London

PRM accession book

 

[Summer] No month

No days

Lane Fox surveys Roovesmore Fort

[Thompson, Bowden] Chapman, 1981: 115

Lane Fox removes ogham stones and sends them to BM via Cork Steamship Co. according to Chapman

September

27

Lane Fox making plans to leave Ireland for England by putting his furniture up for auction in the Cork Constitution of this date

Twohig, 1987: 42

 

October

 

 

 

 

November

 

 

 

 

November

16

Item acquired from Bishopsgate London

PRM accession book

 

December

5, 14, no days

Items acquired from City of London

PRM accession book

 

December

No days

Lane Fox posted back to London, junior acting major of 2nd battalion, stationed at Buckingham Palace

Chapman, 1981: 247

But see above, he must have known he was leaving Ireland by September 1865

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