A year in the life: 1884

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Month

Day

Event

Source of information

Notes

January

No day

Tylor starts in post as Reader

University Gazette, vol. XIV November 6, 1883: 89

 

January

No day

Tylor's first lecture in anthropology at Oxford

Source unknown

 

January

7

Pitt-Rivers attends opening of Dorset County Museum and gives address

Morning Post 2 January 1884 p. 3

 

January

7

Pitt-Rivers has opened his private museum at Farnham by this date

Address on the Opening of Dorset County Museum

 

February

 

 

 

 

March

4/ 5

Pitt-Rivers appointed Sheriff of Dorsetshire

The Times 5 March 1884 [5th]; London Gazette (25325: 1117) [4th]

 

April

12, 14 or 15

Lubbock proposes marriage to Alice Fox Pitt, she accepts

Patton, 2007: 158

This is Easter Saturday

April

12, 14 or 15

Pitt-Rivers' 57th birthday

See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdate

 

May

15

Pitt-Rivers purchases Cesnola material, Sotheby auction

Sotheby catalogue, Bodleian Library, PRM accession book

 

May

17

Pitt-Rivers attends wedding of daughter Alice to John Lubbock at St Peters Eaton Square, wedding breakfast at Grosvenor Gardens

Morning Post 19 May 1884 p. 5; Patton, 2007: 158

 

May

20

Deed of gift of founding collection to University of Oxford signed

Deed of gift, University Archives, UC/FF/60/2/2; PRM ms collections PRM box 2 20

 

May

31

Pitt-Rivers visits Castle Dykes Northampton

National Archives workbook 39/14 page 114

 

June

3

Pitt-Rivers inspecting Wayland's Smithy, Uffington and White Horse Hill, Oxfordshire (then Berkshire) and Barbury Castle

National Archives workbook 39/12 and 39/14

 

June

8

Pitt-Rivers inspecting Pentre Ifan, Arthurs Quoit, Newport, Nevern, Wolfcastle Motte, and other sites in Pembrokeshire

According to this website and National Archives workbook 39/12 and 39/14 

 

June

23

Pitt-Rivers attends Garden Party at Lambeth Palace

Manchester Guardian 24 June 1884

 

June

No days

Arthur Evans appointed Keeper of Ashmolean Museum

Larson, 2007: 94

 

June

No days

Pitt-Rivers carries out inspection visit of Midlands, Wales

Thompson, 1977:66, 125

 

June

10

Symm and Co. appointed to build extension for PRM, works starts Spring 1885

Larson 2007:94

 

June

14

Items acquired from Kew Gardens

PRM accession book

 

July

4

Moseley and Franks agree value of Pitt-Rivers collection in Oxford of £10,000

University Archives UC/FF/60/2/1

 

July

7

Pitt-Rivers attends levée

The Times 9 July 1884

 

July

19

Pitt-Rivers visiting Bakewell, Derbyshire and Hob's Hurst House

National Archives workbook 39/12 and 39/15

 

July

22

Items recorded as being removed from South Kensington Museum [SKM] by Pitt-Rivers

Day or Van book known as Green book

 

July

29

Items recorded as being removed from SKM by Pitt-Rivers

Day or Van book known as Green book

 

August / September

25 [or so] to after September 3

Pitt-Rivers visits Scotland as Inspector including Edin's Hall, Aberlemno, St Vigeans, sites in Aberdeenshire and Highlands etc

National Archives workbooks 39/6,  39/12 and 39/15 and 39/16

 

September

9

Visiting dealers in Edinburgh

Thompson, 1977:66, 125, CUL volume 1. National Archives workbook 39/12

 

September

25

Pitt-Rivers has letter published on Pen Pits, signed himself Inspector of Ancient Monuments

The Times 25 September 1884

 

September

No days

Pitt-Rivers carries out inspection visit of East coast of Scotland

Cambridge University Volumes Volume 2 page 99

 

September

No days

Pitt-Rivers excavating Woodcuts

Bowden, 1991: 114

Bowden suggests work completed December 1885

October

No days

Pitt-Rivers excavating Woodcuts

Thompson, 1977:125-6

 

November

No days

Pitt-Rivers excavating Woodcuts

Thompson, 1977:125-6

 

December

No days

Pitt-Rivers excavating Woodcuts

Thompson, 1977:125-6

 

No month

No days

Pitt-Rivers published 1884 [a] Address delivered at the Opening of the Dorset County Museum, Dorchester January 7 1884. J Foster Dorchester, UK; 1884 Report on excavations in the Pen Pits near Penselwood, Somerset. London Privately printed, Address delivered at Annual Meeting of the Dorchester School of Art' Dorset County Chronicle 7 February 1884

See relevant journals

 

No month

No days

Pitt-Rivers tours Oxfordshire archaeological sites as part of Inspector job

Chapman, 1981: 496

 

 

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