Portrait of Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
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Author

Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers

English army officer, ethnologist and archaeologist (1827–1900)

Born
April 14, 1827, Bramham
Died
May 4, 1900, Wiltshire
Nationality
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Occupation
Anthropologist, archaeologist, prehistorian, historian and weapon historian

Life and work

Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (born Augustus Henry Lane-Fox; 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. His international collection of about 22,000 objects was the founding collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford, while his collection of English archaeology from the area around Stonehenge forms the basis of the collection at The Salisbury Museum in Wiltshire.

Throughout most of his life he used the surname Lane Fox, under which his early archaeological reports are published. In 1880 he adopted the Pitt Rivers name on inheriting from Lord Rivers (a cousin) an estate of more than 32,000 acres in Cranborne Chase.

His family name is often spelled as "Pitt-Rivers". His middle name is sometimes spelled as "Lane-Fox". The surname he adopted following the Royal Licence was Fox-Pitt-Rivers.

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Collection

Books by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers

1 book