Suvarna Garge (Editor)

Pitt Rivers

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit

Pitt-Rivers is an English surname adopted by the later Baron Rivers.

Contents

People

  • Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Baron Rivers (1777–1831); born William Beckford, adopted the name on inheriting the title from his brother-in-law George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers
  • George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers (1810–1866)
  • Henry Peter Pitt-Rivers, 5th Baron Rivers (1849–1867)
  • Horace Pitt-Rivers, 6th Baron Rivers (1814–1880)
  • Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827–1900), ethnologist and archaeologist
  • George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (1890–1966), anthropologist, grandson of Augustus
  • Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (1907–1990), physiologist, joint discoverer of the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine, 2nd wife of George Henry
  • Michael Pitt-Rivers (1917–1999), son of George Henry, gained notoriety when put on trial charged with buggery
  • Julian A. Pitt-Rivers (1919–2001), anthropologist and ethnographer, son of George Henry

    • Places

  • The Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford, founded by Augustus Pitt Rivers

    • References

    Pitt-Rivers Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA