Month

Day

Event

Source of information

Notes

January

18

Pitt-Rivers stands for Dorsetshire County Council

The Times 18 January 1889

February

21

Pitt-Rivers attends meeting of Society of Antiquaries

Athenaeum 3201 2 March 1889 p.283-4

March

April

1-5

Pitt-Rivers visits Wiltshire as Inspector of Ancient Monuments

National Archives workbook 39/10 

April

2-17

Pitt-Rivers excavating Wansdyke

Thompson, 1977: 126

National Archives workbook 39/10 confirms at Wansdyke by 4.4.1889

April

12, 14 or 15

Pitt-Rivers's 62nd birthday

See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdate

April

25

Pitt-Rivers attends wedding of Alexander Lane Fox at St Peters, Eaton Square, London

Morning Post 26 April 1889 p. 5

May

7

Pitt-Rivers attends Levée

Morning Post 8 May 1889 p. 4

May

28

Pitt-Rivers attends meeting of Anthropological Institute and exhibits skeletal finds from excavations at Hunsbury Camp, Northampton and Llantwit, Cardiff

Peter Rivière

May

30

Pitt-Rivers attends Queen's State Concert at Buckingham Palace

Morning Post 1 June 1889 p. 7

June

1

Pitt-Rivers attends Lady Wimborne's reception at Arlington Street, London

Manchester Guardian 2 June 1889

June

3

Pitt-Rivers attends annual dinner of Grenadier Guards Club in London

Morning Post 5 June 1889

June

25

Pitt-Rivers attends meeting of Anthropological Institute, Balfour reads paper about composite bows, Pitt-Rivers contributes to discussion and continues discussion in writing after meeting

JAI 19 (1890): 213-215; 220-250

JAI 19 (1890): 213-215 refers to exhibits in PRM. 1884.16.1-2?

July

4

Pitt-Rivers attends garden party at Marlborough House in London

Morning Post 5 July 1889 p. 6

July

6

Pitt-Rivers buys pictures at Christie's in London

The Times 9 July 1889

July

17

Pitt-Rivers attends conference of delegates of all leading archaeological societies at Burlington House in London

Notes on Art and Archaeology Academy 898 20 July 1889 p. 45 9 July 1889

More here: ALLEN, J ROMILLY, THE CONFERENCE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETIES., Athenaeum (London, 1830), 3221 (1889:July 20) p.104; and here NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS., British Architect, (1889:July 26) p.56.

July - September

27 July to 13 September?

Pitt-Rivers carries out Inspector's tour of Scotland, for part of time it is his assistant alone who carries on tour as Pitt-Rivers returns to London

Thompson, 1977: 68, 126. National Archives workbook 39/3 and 39/8 and 39/13 

August

1

Pitt-Rivers returns to London leaving Gray and Tomkin to do tour [Mrs Rivers ill, Pitt-Rivers informed by telegram]

National Archives workbook 39/13

August

No days

Pitt-Rivers in Scotland, buys objects in Edinburgh around 19.8.1889, according to CUL volume but see entries above and below

Thompson, 1977: 126; CUL Volumes II 573, 588

August

29

Pitt-Rivers returns to Scotland to resume Inspectors tour

National Archives workbook 39/13 page 28

November

No days

Pitt-Rivers excavating at Bokerley Dyke and Woodyates

Bowden, 1991: 118

According to Bowden work carried on from November 1889 and May 1890

December

No days

Pitt-Rivers excavating at Bokerley Dyke and Woodyates

Bowden, 1991: 118

No month

No days

Pitt-Rivers publishes ‘Discussion of Govr Moloney’s ‘Exhibition of Bow from Yoruba’ JAI 19 [1889] 214-5; ‘Remarks on the paper ‘On the Structure and Affinities of the Composite Bow’ by Henry Balfour’ JAI 19 [1889] 246-50

See relevant journals

No month

No days

First year Pitt-Rivers uses typewriter and camera in record keeping

Thompson, 1977: 95

No month

No days

Pitt-Rivers investigates St John's House on his estate to find out history

Gray, 1905: xxiii

No month

No days

Francis Reader, one of Pitt-Rivers' assistants, dismissed

Bowden, 1991: 164; Thompson, 1977: 94

Thompson calls him G.W. Reader

No month

No days

Marriage of Pitt-Rivers' oldest son, Alexander

Gray, 1905: xxiii

No month

No days

Pitt-Rivers' assistant, Tomkin sent to Polytechnic in London for instruction in photography and drawing

Thompson, 1977: 95

No month

No days

Pitt-Rivers gives talk to Blackmore Museum on the Uses and Arrangement of Arts Museums

Adrian Green, S&SWM from 1889-90 Annual Report.

Obviously this could also have taken place in 1890 as well.