Pitt-Rivers

This article is about the surname. For the museum, see Pitt Rivers Museum.

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 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), elder son of Horace
• Henry Pitt-Rivers, 5th Baron Rivers (1849–1867), son of George
• Horace Pitt-Rivers, 6th Baron Rivers (1814–1880), younger son of Horace
• Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827–1900), ethnologist and archaeologist, second-cousin of the younger Horace (via a different daughter of George Pitt, 2nd Baron). Founder of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford
• George Pitt-Rivers (1890–1966), anthropologist, grandson of Augustus
• Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (1907–1990), physiologist, joint discoverer of the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine, his second wife
• Michael Pitt-Rivers (1917–1999), their son, who gained notoriety when put on trial charged with buggery
• Julian Pitt-Rivers (1919–2001), anthropologist and ethnographer, his brother