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    Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers FRS FSA FRAI (14 April 1827 – 4 May 1900) was an English officer in the British Army, ethnologist...
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    accessed through that building. The museum was founded in 1884 by Augustus Pitt Rivers, who donated his private collection to the University of Oxford with...
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  • Horace Pitt-Rivers, 6th Baron Rivers (1814–1880), younger son of Horace (1777–1831) The surname was adopted by the ethnologist and archaeologist Augustus Henry...
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  • (1919–2001), Julian Pitt-Rivers, social anthropologist professor, son of George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (1917–1999),...
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  • of Augustus Pitt Rivers, ethnologist and anthropologist and founder of the Pitt Rivers Museum, upon whose death in 1900 Alexander inherited the Pitt-Rivers...
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  • Major Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (27 May 1917 – December 1999) was a West Country landowner who gained notoriety in Britain in the 1950s when...
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  • professor at universities in three countries. Pitt-Rivers was a great-grandson of the archaeologist Augustus Pitt Rivers. His father was the anthropologist and...
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    Martin. It is a Scheduled Monument. Bokerley Dyke was excavated by Augustus Pitt Rivers between 1888 and 1891 and by Philip Rahtz in advance of road widening...
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    at Rotherley Down, has an area of about 2 hectares (4.9 acres). Augustus Pitt Rivers, inheritor of the Rushmore Estate, where he was resident from 1880...
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    Earl Rivers. George Pitt's eldest son and namesake was the aforementioned George Pitt, who was elevated to the peerage in 1776. In 1802 Lord Rivers was...
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