Augustus Pitt Rivers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Augustus Pitt Rivers

English army officer, ethnologist and archaeologist

Date of Birth: 14-Apr-1827

Place of Birth: Bramham, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 04-May-1900

Profession: historian, archaeologist, anthropologist, prehistorian

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers (14 April 1827 – 4 May 1900) was an English officer in the British Army, ethnologist, and archaeologist.
He was noted for innovations in archaeological methodology, and in the museum display of archaeological and ethnological collections.
His international collection of about 22,000 objects was the founding collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford while his collection of English archaeology from the area around Stonehenge forms the basis of the collection at The Salisbury Museum in Wiltshire.Throughout most of his life he used the surname Lane Fox, under which his early 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 Chase.