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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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    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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    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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    hill forts was popularised in the 19th century by archaeologist Augustus Pitt Rivers. In the 1930s, archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler and Tessa Verney Wheeler...
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    excavation in 1863 by J. H. Austen, of features in the main enclosure. Augustus Pitt Rivers, inheritor of the Rushmore Estate, where he was resident from 1880...
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  • 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...
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    Tollard Royal in south Wiltshire, England, were created by landowner Augustus Pitt Rivers in 1880 as pleasure grounds for "public enlightenment and entertainment"...
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  • 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)...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    000 ha) estate was inherited by a cousin, Augustus Lane-Fox, who also adopted the Pitt Rivers name. Augustus Pitt Rivers had a long military career, retiring...
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    the River Ouse. On the summit of Caburn are the remains of an Iron Age hill fort. The hill fort has been repeatedly excavated, by Augustus Pitt Rivers from...
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    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...
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    Oxford since its foundation, when as part of his donation General Augustus Pitt Rivers stipulated that the university establish a lectureship in anthropology...
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  • archaeological societies by palaeoarchaeology were Augustus Pitt Rivers and Edward Burnett Tylor. Evans, Pitt Rivers, and John Lubbock all promoted interest in...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827–1900), English officer in the British Army, ethnologist, and archaeologist Augustus Roberts, Canadian politician Augustus I...
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    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...
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  • of his first wife, Tessa Wheeler. Influenced by the archaeologist Augustus Pitt Rivers, Wheeler argued that excavation and the recording of stratigraphic...
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    was worked on by various architects including John Soane. General Augustus Pitt-Rivers lived in the house as a child during the 1830s and 1840s. The present...
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  • (Royal Tank Regiment) Sir Alexander Cunningham (King's Regiment) Augustus Pitt Rivers (Grenadier Guards) Sir Mortimer Wheeler (Royal Artillery) Keith Floyd...
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