Pitt-Rivers
Name Origin
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 ; 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, elder son of Horace
- Henry Pitt-Rivers, [5th Baron Rivers], son of George
- Horace Pitt-Rivers, 6th Baron Rivers, younger son of Horace
- George Pitt-Rivers, anthropologist, grandson of Augustus
- Rosalind Pitt-Rivers, physiologist, joint discoverer of the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine, second wife of the above
- Michael Pitt-Rivers, George 's son, who gained notoriety when put on trial charged with buggery
- Julian Pitt-Rivers, anthropologist and ethnographer, the second son
- Anthony Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, third son, who married in 1964 Valerie, who was Lord Lieutenant of Dorset 2006–2014.
Category:Surnames of [English origin]