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...
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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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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...
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countries. Pitt-Rivers was a great-grandson of the archaeologist Augustus Pitt Rivers. His father was the anthropologist and propertied aristocrat George Henry...
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Baron Rivers (1721–1803) George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers (1751–1828) William Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Baron Rivers (1777–1831) George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron...
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against homosexual acts as they then stood. Pitt-Rivers was the son of Captain George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers and the actress Mary Hinton, who died in...
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George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers (16 July 1810 – 28 April 1866), known as George Beckford until 1828, was a British peer and politician. He held a...
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George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers (1 May 1721 – 7 May 1803) was an English diplomat, politician, military officer and peer who served as the British ambassador...
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Pitt Rivers Museum is a museum displaying the archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford in England. The museum is located...
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ISBN 978-1-57607-090-1. Rosalind Pitt-Rivers. MacKellar, F. Landis (29 April 2014). "Captain George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers and the origins of the IUSSPF"...
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They had four children: George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers (1810–1866) Horace Pitt-Rivers, 6th Baron Rivers (1814–1880) Fanny Pitt (d. 1 February 1836)...
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married Anthony Pitt-Rivers (né George Anthony Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers), born in 1932 in Marylebone, the only child of George Pitt-Rivers (1890–1966) and...
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Pitt-Rivers George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (1890–1966), George Pitt-Rivers, anthropologist and World War II intern. Rosalind Venetia Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers...
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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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also suffered. Henry was the youngest of four sons born to George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers and his wife Lady Susan, all of whom suffered from a chronic...
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(1945). She was married to George Pitt-Rivers from 1915 to 1930 and had two sons Michael Pitt-Rivers and Julian Pitt-Rivers. Once in a New Moon (1934)...
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Pontefract George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers (1721–1803), British diplomat and politician George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers (1751–1828), British politician George Dean...
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George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers (19 September 1751 – 20 July 1828) was a French-born English politician, military officer and peer who sat in the British...
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Horace Pitt-Rivers, 6th Baron Rivers (12 April 1814 – 3 March 1880), known as Horace Beckford until 1828 and Hon. Horace Pitt from 1828 until 1867, was...
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incautiously wrote a preface for an inflammatory political pamphlet by George Pitt-Rivers, The World Significance of the Russian Revolution. He was deported...
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8 January 1851. He was born George Dean, the illegitimate son of George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers.[citation needed] Dean-Pitt, at the time a Major, was stationed...
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William Bradley Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. He is the recipient of various accolades, including three Academy...
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Post-Revolutionary France. Oxford University Press, 2016. Peristiany, John George & Pitt-Rivers Julian. Honor and Grace in Anthropology. Cambridge University Press...
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auction by his mistress Stella Lonsdale following the death in 1966 of George Pitt-Rivers, who specified that the Estate not be sold as such, but that each...
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he married the Honourable Frances Georgiana Pitt-Rivers, daughter of George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers, and Lady Susan Georgiana Leveson-Gower, daughter...
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of Bramham Park, Yorkshire, by the Hon. Mary Lucy Pitt, daughter of George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers. He was the brother of Sackville Lane-Fox and the uncle...
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donated to the National Trust by its then land-owners, Alexander and George Pitt-Rivers, and it is now listed as a Scheduled Monument. During World War II...
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(25 October 1810 – 30 April 1866); in 1833, she married George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers. Lady Georgiana Charlotte Leveson-Gower (23 September 1812...
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reign of King George III, was dominated by major political events in Europe, including the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Pitt, although often...
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William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, PC, FRS (15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778) was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain...
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