Pitt-Rivers
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Pitt-Rivers is an English surname adopted by the later Baron Rivers.
[edit] People
- William Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Baron Rivers (1777–1831). Born William Beckford, he 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. Born Augustus Henry Lane Fox, he adopted the surname after inheriting the estates and fortune (but not the title) of his cousin, the 6th Baron Rivers.
- George Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers (1890–1966), anthropologist, grandson of Augustus.
- Julian A. Pitt-Rivers (1919-2001), anthropologist and ethnographer, son of George Henry.
- Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (1907-1990), physiologist. At the National Institute for Medical Research, Pitt-Rivers and Jack Gross discovered the active thyroid hormone triiodothyronine, publishing "The identification of 3:5:3'-L-triiodothyronine in human plasma" in The Lancet.
[edit] Places
- The Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford, founded by Augustus Pitt Rivers.
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