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... 24 KB (2,700 words) - 05:46, 3 April 2024 |
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... 19 KB (1,989 words) - 17:57, 6 May 2024 |
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... 2 KB (264 words) - 12:01, 7 March 2024 |
(1919–2001), Julian Pitt-Rivers, social anthropologist professor, son of George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (1917–1999),... 2 KB (318 words) - 15:34, 4 December 2023 |
of Augustus Pitt Rivers, ethnologist and anthropologist and founder of the Pitt Rivers Museum, upon whose death in 1900 Alexander inherited the Pitt-Rivers... 18 KB (2,407 words) - 12:02, 15 January 2024 |
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... 8 KB (745 words) - 11:12, 28 April 2024 |
professor at universities in three countries. Pitt-Rivers was a great-grandson of the archaeologist Augustus Pitt Rivers. His father was the anthropologist and... 7 KB (591 words) - 03:15, 9 May 2024 |
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... 5 KB (556 words) - 01:50, 9 July 2023 |
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... 4 KB (399 words) - 11:29, 12 May 2023 |
South Lodge Camp (section Pitt Rivers excavations) Chase), and a cemetery of six round barrows nearby at Barrow Pleck. Augustus Pitt Rivers, inheritor of the Rushmore Estate, where he was resident from 1880... 4 KB (486 words) - 11:30, 12 May 2023 |
wife, George Pitt-Rivers (1890–1966), anthropologist and eugenicist, one of the richest men in England and a grandson of Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827–1900)... 8 KB (706 words) - 04:03, 7 April 2024 |
Miranda Mary Fox-Pitt (born 29 December 1968) younger daughter of Mervyn Fox-Pitt and a descendant of General Augustus Pitt Rivers on 27 July 1988. They... 4 KB (436 words) - 13:55, 25 April 2024 |
Oxford (category Local authorities adjoining the River Thames) Retrieved 4 November 2007. "Pitt Rivers Museum Website, About Augustus Pitt Rivers". University of Oxford Pitt Rivers Museum. Archived from the original... 120 KB (9,887 words) - 17:53, 26 April 2024 |
father's cousin Horace Pitt-Rivers, 6th Baron Rivers, the family took the name Fox Pitt-Rivers on 25 May 1880. In 1878, Fox-Pitt was granted a patent on... 4 KB (504 words) - 19:47, 22 August 2023 |
Wor Barrow (section Excavations by Pitt Rivers) in Dorset, England. It is a scheduled monument. Its excavation by Augustus Pitt Rivers in 1893–1894 has been described as "an important event in the study... 4 KB (480 words) - 12:25, 28 March 2023 |
archaeological societies by palaeoarchaeology were Augustus Pitt Rivers and Edward Burnett Tylor. Evans, Pitt Rivers, and John Lubbock all promoted interest in... 4 KB (435 words) - 17:08, 26 February 2023 |
Winkelbury Camp (section Excavations by Pitt Rivers) interpreted as indications of buildings and pits for storage or refuse. Augustus Pitt Rivers, inheritor of the Rushmore Estate at Tollard Royal, where he was... 4 KB (425 words) - 11:15, 20 February 2024 |
1873–74 George Busk 1875–76 Augustus Pitt Rivers 1877–78 John Evans 1879–80 Edward Burnett Tylor 1881–82 Augustus Pitt Rivers 1883–84 William Henry Flower... 17 KB (1,853 words) - 13:40, 21 April 2024 |
Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827–1900), English officer in the British Army, ethnologist, and archaeologist Augustus Roberts, Canadian politician Augustus I... 31 KB (3,567 words) - 04:37, 14 March 2024 |
Wiltshire, and on Shearplace Hill in Dorset. There was excavation by Augustus Pitt Rivers from November 1895 to March 1896. He excavated all of the bank and... 4 KB (412 words) - 04:29, 20 April 2022 |
of his first wife, Tessa Wheeler. Influenced by the archaeologist Augustus Pitt Rivers, Wheeler argued that excavation and the recording of stratigraphic... 105 KB (14,049 words) - 10:51, 1 May 2024 |
(Royal Tank Regiment) Sir Alexander Cunningham (King's Regiment) Augustus Pitt Rivers (Grenadier Guards) Sir Mortimer Wheeler (Royal Artillery) Keith Floyd... 30 KB (3,138 words) - 22:52, 25 April 2024 |