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Augustus Pitt Rivers

1827 - 1900

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Lieutenant General 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Augustus Pitt Rivers is the 148th most popular archaeologist (down from 147th in 2019), the 6,183rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 6,125th in 2019) and the 34th most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Augustus Pitt Rivers ranks 148 out of 151. Before him are Churchill Babington, J. P. Mallory, Robert John Braidwood, Alexey Okladnikov, Salima Ikram, and Jacquetta Hawkes. After him are Barry Cunliffe, William G. Dever, and Leonardo López Luján.

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Among people born in 1827, Augustus Pitt Rivers ranks 73. Before him are Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, John Owen, Richard Morris Hunt, Mary Ward, Henry Warner Slocum, and Milton Latham.  Among people deceased in 1900, Augustus Pitt Rivers ranks 97. Before him are George Grove, Ernest Dowson, József Szlávy, Raimundo Andueza Palacio, William Stanley Haseltine, and George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll. After him is R. D. Blackmore.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Augustus Pitt Rivers ranks 6,185 out of 8,785. Before him are Arthur Wing Pinero (1855), Dave Greenfield (1949), Justin Chancellor (1971), Jamie Bamber (1973), David Gandy (1980), and Olivia Cooke (1993). After him are Anna Howard Shaw (1847), Tony Wilson (1950), Muriel Day (1942), Dinny Pails (1921), Rory Kinnear (1978), and Flora Murray (1869).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, Augustus Pitt Rivers ranks 34. Before him are John M. Allegro (1923), Bernard Pyne Grenfell (1869), John Garstang (1876), Arthur Surridge Hunt (1871), Churchill Babington (1821), and Jacquetta Hawkes (1910).

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