[3] When the 1860 Volunteer movement was started, Lanchester joined the ‘Six-Foot Guards’, “so called because every member of the corps was six feet more”.
[5] By 1870, the Lanchester family had moved to Brighton[6] where Henry was engaged for many years in the laying out and building work on the extensive Stanford Estate.
[7] He is recorded as the consulting architect for the renaissance style Palmeira Mansions, built 1883–1884, in Church Road, Hove.
[11] In 1878, Lanchester gave notice to the Office of Commissioners in York, of his intention to apply for patent in respect of the invention of "an improved facing brick or tile.
Edith Lanchester became an active member of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) political party and in October 1895, she announced that she intended to live in a de facto relationship with fellow socialist, Shamus Sullivan (1872–1945).
[16] Incensed by her ‘immorality’, Edith's father and her older brothers kidnapped her and had her committed to the Rochampton Asylum on the grounds of "over-education".