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    In 1880, Lane Fox inherited the estates of his cousin, Horace Pitt-Rivers, 6th Baron Rivers and with it the remainder of the Richard Rigby fortune. It...
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    William Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Baron Rivers (2 December 1777 – 23 January 1831), known as Horace Beckford until 1828, was a British peer and gambler...
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  • Pitt-Rivers is an English surname adopted by later holders of the peerage Baron Rivers. Holders of the surname include: Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Baron...
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  • Horace Pitt-Rivers may refer to: Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Baron Rivers, British nobleman and gambler Horace Pitt-Rivers, 6th Baron Rivers, British peer...
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  • inherit the barony. Born George Beckford, Lord Rivers was the elder son of Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Baron Rivers. He was educated at Harrow School from 1821...
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    George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers (1 May 1721 – 7 May 1803) was a British diplomat, politician, militia officer and peer who served as the British ambassador...
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    George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers (1721–1803) George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers (1751–1828) William Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Baron Rivers (1777–1831) George Pitt-Rivers...
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    George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers (19 September 1751 – 20 July 1828) was a British politician, militia officer and peer who sat in the British House of Commons...
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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...
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  • footballer Horace Pippin (1888–1946), American painter Horace Pittaway (born 1941), South African cricketer Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Baron Rivers (1777–1831)...
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  • his 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...
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  • Lucy Pitt, daughter of George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers. He was the brother of Sackville Lane-Fox and the uncle of Sackville Lane-Fox, 12th Baron Conyers...
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  • Lucy, daughter of George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers. He was the brother of George Lane-Fox and the uncle of Augustus Pitt Rivers. Lane-Fox was returned to...
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  • Fox-Lane married Hon. Marcia Lucy Pitt (1756–1822), the daughter of British diplomat and politician George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers and the former Penelope Atkins...
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    Leeds 20. Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Baron Rivers 10. George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers 21. Frances Rigby 5. The Hon. Frances Pitt-Rivers 22. Granville...
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    George Richard Lane Fox, 1st Baron Bingley, PC (15 December 1870 – 11 December 1947) was a British Conservative politician. He served as Secretary for...
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    him "Chatham" or "Pitt the Elder" to distinguish him from his son William Pitt the Younger, who also served as prime minister. Pitt was also known as...
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  • Cornwallis 1795–1801 John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham 1801–1806 Francis Rawdon Hastings, 2nd Earl of Moira 1806–1807 John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham 1807–1810...
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    Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, KB (29 January 1717 – 3 August 1797) was a British Army officer and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces...
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  • is represented by her issue by her third husband George Pitt, of whom were the Barons Rivers, extinct 1880, Lady Catherine, by her second husband, was...
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    family. Church, S.D. The Household Knights of King John, Cambridge, 1999 Pitt-Rivers, Michael, 1968. Dorset. London: Faber & Faber. "Kingston Russell & the...
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    impression of greater distance between the front gates and the castle entrance. Horace Walpole saw Brown's maturing scheme in 1751 and remarked in a letter: "The...
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    was owned by the Pitt family, descendants of Lady Jane Savage's second marriage, who were elevated to a peerage in 1776 as Baron Rivers. During the 18th...
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    Duncan Pitcher General Sir William Augustus Pitt Lieutenant-General Augustus Pitt Rivers General Sir Walter Pitt-Taylor General Alfred Fox Place (c. 1815—1902)...
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    man made me miss my destiny" Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien (1858–1930), general, World War I Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788–1855), British commander...
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  • 3rd Baron Tweedmouth (1874–1935) Hugh Molyneux, 7th Earl of Sefton (1898–1972) Christopher Nevill, 6th Marquess of Abergavenny (1955–) Horace Pitt-Rivers...
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  • British RAF Air Chief Marshal who was Air Secretary (1967–1970) Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford (1775–1804), Royal Navy officer and rake (left after 9 days)...
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    of the 1st Marquess, Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford brother of William Pitt the elder, George Nugent-Grenville, 2nd Baron Nugent brother of the 1st Duke...
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    Crockford's Clerical Directory 1898 p403: London, Horace Cox, 1898 A Famous Churchman, in the Red River Prospector, published 2 May 1901; retrieved 17 May...
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  • Delavan (temperance leader in Albany, New York) Delaware – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (note the spelling) De Leon, Texas and DeLeon Springs, Florida...
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