A year in the life: 1900 and on
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March |
8 |
Ecclesiastical preferments |
The Times 8 March 1900 |
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April |
12, 14 or 15 |
Pitt-Rivers' 73rd birthday |
See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdate |
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May |
4 |
Pitt-Rivers dies at Rushmore |
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May |
7 |
Hebdomadal Council appoints Tylor, Balfour and Henry Pelham to represent University at Pitt-Rivers' Funeral. Obituary published in Times |
University Intelligence: Jackson's Oxford Journal, 12 May 1900, p. 6; The Times 7 May 1900 |
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May |
9 |
Pitt-Rivers cremated at Woking |
Birmingham Daily Post, 9 May 1900, p. 4 |
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May |
10 |
Pitt-Rivers' Funeral at Tollard Royal |
Birmingham Daily Post, 9 May 1900, p. 4 |
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May |
11 |
Account of Pitt-Rivers' funeral at Tollard Royal |
The Times 11 May 1900 |
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May |
15 |
Pitt-Rivers' death announced to Anthropological Institute |
Peter Rivière; JAI 30 (1900): 4 |
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June |
27 |
Oxford Encaenia, public orator commemorates Pitt-Rivers |
The Times 28 June 1900 |
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November |
7 |
Pitt-Rivers remembered at meeting of Egypt Exploration Fund |
The Times 8 November 1900 |
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December |
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Publication of Antique Works of Art from Benin by Pitt-Rivers |
Thompson, 1977: 79, 127 |
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Pitt-Rivers publishes A short Guide to the Larmer Grounds, Rushmore; King John's House; the museum at Farnham; and neighbourhood (privately printed second edition) |
Thompson, 1977: 79 |
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G. Waldo Johnson resigns as Pitt-Rivers' assistant on Cranborne Chase excavations |
Thompson, 1977: 94 |
On page 95 Thompson contradicts himself by saying Johnson still on payroll in 1901 |
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Other events after this that are related: |
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January 29 |
1901 |
Pitt-Rivers' will and codicil concerning future use of Larmer Grounds and Museum, see pages 9 and 14 |
The Times 29 January 1901 |
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March 16 |
1901 |
Pitt-Rivers remembered at Annual meeting of Royal Irish Academy, where he had been Honorary Member |
The Times 18 March 1901 |
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January 30 |
1902 |
More discussion of Pitt-Rivers' will, earlier decision overturned |
The Times 30 January 1902 |
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May 19 |
1910 |
Alice Margaret Pitt-Rivers dies |
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1927 |
Pitt-Rivers family leaves Rushmore and it is rented out |
See here |
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June 17, |
1966 |
George Henry Pitt-Rivers, Pitt-Rivers' grandson and actively involved in Farnham Museum dies. The museum closes shortly thereafter |
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1967 |
Pitt-Rivers family sells Rushmore to Sandroyd School [it had previously been rented to them] |
See here |
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