Augustus Henry Lane Fox later Pitt Rivers
| Col.(Lieut. General) Augustus Henry Lane Fox later Pitt Rivers FRGS, DCL, FRS, FSA, FGS | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1827 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 1900 | ||||||||||||||
| Residence |
[no address given in 1862-3] Montenotte, Cork [1865] Guards Club P Mall 10 Upper Phillimore Gardens Kensington W [1867] Guildford, Surrey [1875] 4 Grosvenor Gardens, SW; and Rushmore, Shaftesbury, Wilts [1883] Rushmore, Salisbury; and 4 Grosvenor Gardens [1894] | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation |
armed services academic museum work | ||||||||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
ESL Council 1868-69 Member then after Nov.68 Hon. Secretary to replace Mr Nash, resigned
ESL Council 1869-70 Hon. General Secretary
ASL Council 1867 Member
AI Council 1871 Member
AI Council 1872 Member
AI Council 1873 Vice President
AI Council 1874 Vice President
AI Council 1875 President
AI Council 1876 President
AI Council 1877 Vice President
AI Council 1878 Vice President
AI Council 1879 Vice President
AI Council 1880 Vice President
AI Council 1881 President
AI Council 1882 President
AI Council 1883 Vice President
AI Council 1884 Vice President
AI Council 1885 Vice President
House Notes
Grenadier Guards
Foreign Associate of the Anthropological Society of Paris, Hon. Associate of the Societa Italiana di Antropologia e di Etnologia; Hon. Member of the Anthropological Society of Washington; Inspector of Ancient Moniuments in Great Britain
in A31/2/2 [list Aug 20 1866] Montenotte address crossed out and Phillimore Gardens address handwritten
ESL proposes Classification Committee 23 Feb 69
[Annual report 1869]: named as General Secretary
1871.02.14 Publication Committee
1871.02.14 Finance Committee
1900.05.15 The President undertook to write a letter of condolence to Mrs Pitt-Rivers, expressing the deep regret with which the Council had learned of the death of her husband, and their sincere sympathy with her in her loss
death noted in report of the council for 1900
obituary in Read's Presidential address 1901
Notes From Elsewhere
Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers (14 April 1827 – 4 May 1900) was an English army officer, ethnologist, and archaeologist.[1] He was noted for his innovations in archaeological methods, and in the museum display of archaeological and ethnological collections. His collection of about 22,000 objects formed the founding collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford
First Inspector of Ancient Monuments. Friend and father-in-law of John Lubbock
Member of the Athenaeum club from 1881
Publications
External Publications
Excavations on Cranborne Chase (4 volumes) Excavations on Bokerly and Wansdyke.
House Publications
ESL On some flint implements found associated with Roman remains in Oxfordshire and the Isle of Thanet
ASL
on the close resemblance between certain Danish and Irish forms of flint implements
+ many more
Related Material Details
RAI Material
roy ellen
Other Material
Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum [1886-1900: letters from Sir H.H. Howorth], Cambridge U. [Catalogue of his archaeological and anthropological collections.], British Library, Museum of English Rural Life, Dorset Record Office, National Archives, National Army Museum, Oxford U., Somerset Archive, Northamptonshire Record Office [papers, letters, &c.]; PRM: papers