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A year in the life: 1867
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January |
15 |
Lane Fox attends his first meeting of Anthropological Society Council meeting |
Chapman, 1981: 252 |
Shortly after made member of Publications Committee and chair of committee whose job was to keep watch on work of London contractors and salvage finds |
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January |
22 |
Lane Fox purchase of Colonelcy finalized |
Thompson, 1977: 123; Gray, 1905: x; London Gazette 26 February 1867 (23223: 1025); Chapman, 1981: 252 |
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January |
26 |
Item from Clutterbuck acquired |
PRM accession book |
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January |
No days, 11, 12, 14 |
Lane Fox possibly collecting material from London Wall |
PRM accession book |
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February |
No days |
Items from London purchased |
PRM accession book |
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February |
21 |
Items from Sarum, Wilts acquired |
PRM accession book |
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February |
28 |
Items from Cologne / Clutterbuck purchased |
PRM accession book |
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February |
3 |
Items obtained from JMN Derbyshire |
PRM accession book |
Unknown identity of JMN |
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March |
17 |
Henry Peter Pitt-Rivers, 5th Baron Rivers dies. His successor is Horace Beckford later Pitt-Rivers |
See here |
One of the links in the chain of Pitt-Rivers inheritance |
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March |
19 |
Lane Fox appointed chair of committee to superintend researches in archaeology of London |
JAS, 5 (1867): cxxxiii |
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March |
No day |
Elected to council of Society of Antiquaries |
Chapman, 1981: 252 |
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April |
1-10, some unspecificed days |
In Yorkshire excavating with William Greenwell, items obtained in Yorkshire but with no date except year |
Thompson, 1977: 123, date from PRM accession book; The Times 23, 30 April 1867; Chapman 1981: Chapter 5 |
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April |
12, 14 or 15 |
Lane Fox's 40th birthday |
See 1827 about uncertainty about birthdate |
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April |
before 30 |
Lane Fox in Yorkshire on holiday with family? |
Chapman, 1981: 252 |
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April |
30 |
Lane Fox attends meeting of Society of Antiquaries where he discusses race |
Chapman, 1981: 254 |
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May |
No days |
Lane Fox returns to Ireland and carries out excavations in Midleton, County Cork |
Chapman, 1981: 254 |
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June |
17 |
Lane Fox at Tower of London (Grenadier Guards stationed there) |
The Times 18 June 1867 |
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June |
No days |
Items obtained from County Antrim |
PRM accession book |
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June |
28 |
Lane Fox reads first paper on 'Primitive Warfare' to United Services Institute |
Thompson, 1977: 123, Chapman, 1981: 267 |
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July |
6 |
Takes half-pay from Army. Now ranked as Colonel, free of military duties for next 6 years. Moves to 10 Upper Philimore Gardens, London |
Thompson, 1977: 30, 123; Chapman, 1981: 254 |
According to Thompson both rank and property were paid for by mother. |
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August |
[mid] No days |
Lane Fox starts Sussex hillfort surveying work |
Chapman, 1981: 277 |
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? August |
No days |
Lane Fox does NOT attend British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Dundee |
Chapman, 1981: 277 |
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September |
17 |
Lane Fox surveying Cissbury, Sussex |
PRM accession book |
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September |
20 |
Lane Fox surveying Wolstonbury Hill, Sussex |
PRM accession book |
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September |
24 |
Lane Fox surveying Telscombe Down, Sussex |
PRM accession book |
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September |
26 |
Lane Fox surveying Chanctonbury Ring, Sussex |
PRM accession book |
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September |
28 |
Lane Fox surveying Mount Caburn, Sussex |
PRM accession book |
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September |
No days |
Lane Fox surveying Sussex hillforts |
Thompson, 1977: 123, Dates from PRM accession book |
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October |
?20, No days |
Excavating in Yorkshire Wolds, items obtained from Yorkshire |
OW website, PRM accession book; The Times 23 October 1867 |
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October |
2, 8 |
Visits Beachy Head, Sussex |
PRM accession book |
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October |
11, 12 |
Items from Highdown Hill, Sussex excavated |
PRM accession book |
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November |
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December |
17 |
Lane Fox attends meeting of Anthropological Society, comments on paper |
JAS, 6 (1868): xl-l |
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No month |
No days |
Lane Fox joins Geological Society |
Chapman, 1981: 77 |
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