Editing Augustus Pitt Rivers (section)

==Military career==
Lane Fox had a long and successful military career as a [[staff officer]]. He was educated at the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]], for six months at the age of fourteen and was commissioned into the [[Grenadier Guards]] on 16 May 1845 as an [[Ensign (rank)#United Kingdom|ensign]].<ref name="LG 16 May 1845">{{London Gazette |issue=20471 |date=16 May 1845 |page=1472 }}</ref> In the course of a thirty-two-year military career, albeit much interrupted by leave, he only once saw major front line action, at the [[Battle of Alma]] in 1854. Soon after the battle, he was found unfit for active service and returned to England.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Roberts |first=Alice |title=Ancestors |publisher=Simon & Schuster UK |year=2021 |isbn=978-1-4711-8804-6 |pages=212}}</ref> In 1851 he became a member of the committee to experiment and report on the respective merits of the army's smoothbore muskets. He was appointed to Woolwich to instruct in the use of the new [[Minié rifle]] in 1852. Subsequently, he was largely responsible for founding the Hythe school of Musketry in Kent and became its principal instructor, revising its ''Instruction of Musketry'' manual. The remainder of his service career revolved around musketry instruction and in 1858 he published a paper ''On the improvement of the rifle as a weapon for general use''.<ref name="Evans 2014">{{cite journal|last1=Evans|first1=Christopher|title=Soldiering Archaeology: Pitt Rivers and 'Militarism'|journal=Bulletin of the History of Archaeology|date=30 January 2014|volume=4|issue=24|url=http://www.archaeologybulletin.org/article/view/bha.244/595|access-date=4 August 2014|archive-date=28 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140428161423/http://www.archaeologybulletin.org/article/view/bha.244/595|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|oclc=85009924|title = On the improvement of the rifle, as a weapon for general use|last1 = Pitt-Rivers|first1 = Augustus Henry|date = 1858|location = London|publisher = W. Clowes & Sons}}</ref> He bought a promotion to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] on 2 August 1850.<ref name="LG 2 August 1850">{{London Gazette |issue=21123 |date=2 August 1850 |page=2132 }}</ref> He was promoted to the [[Brevet (military)|brevet rank]] of [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant-colonel]] of the army "for distinguished Service in the Field" during the [[Crimean War]].<ref name="LG 12 December 1854">{{London Gazette |issue=21640 |date=12 December 1854 |page=4052 }}</ref> On 15 May 1857, he [[Purchase of commissions in the British Army|bought the rank]] of lieutenant-colonel in the Grenadier Guards.<ref name="LG 15 May 1857">{{London Gazette |issue=22002 |date=15 May 1857 |page=1734 }}</ref> The then [[Brevet (military)#United Kingdom|brevet]]-[[major (United Kingdom)|major]] Lane Fox was appointed a member of the Fifth Class of the [[Order of the Medjidie]] in 1858 for "distinguished services before the enemy during the [Crimean War]".<ref name="LG 2 March 1858">{{London Gazette |issue=22107 |date=2 March 1858 |page=1258 }}</ref> He was promoted to [[colonel]] on 22 January 1867<ref name="LG 26 February 1867">{{London Gazette |issue=23223 |date=26 February 1867 |page=1025 }}</ref> and [[major-general (United Kingdom)|major-general]] in 1877.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} Pitt Rivers retired in 1882 and was accorded the honorary rank of [[lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)|lieutenant-general]].