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George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (22 May 1890 – 17 June 1966) was a British anthropologist and eugenicist who was one of the wealthiest men in England in the interwar period.
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, and archaeologist. He was noted for innovations in archaeological methodology, and in the museum display of archaeological and ethnological collections.
Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers (1827-1900) was a soldier and collector, interested in anthropology and archaeology. This website is about him, and his collections. Pitt-Rivers set himself an enormous task which he spent most of his life trying to achieve.
Augustus Henry Lane Fox was born at Hope Hall, Yorkshire on 14 April 1827 into a wealthy landowning family. He changed his name to Pitt Rivers after inheriting an estate from his great uncle....
He in turn was the father of George Pitt-Rivers who later ran the Farnham Museum and eventually ensured its closure in the 1960s. St. George William Lane Fox-Pitt, born 14 September 1856, died 6 April 1932. According to Bowden, he was independent, strong-willed, generous and rash.
Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers was born in 1827 in Yorkshire to a wealthy land-owning family. In 1841 he entered the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1845.
Pitt-Rivers (GPR) was a large Dorset landowner and anthropological researcher. After being wounded in the First World War he turned his attentions to science, travelling to the South Pacific in the early 1920s and later producing a volume on the 'Clash of Cultures' he witnessed there.
