Pitt-Rivers
Name Origin
Pitt-Rivers is an English surname adopted by later holders of the peerage Baron Rivers. Holders of the surname include:
The surname was adopted by the ethnologist and archaeologist Augustus Henry Lane-Fox when he inherited from Horace in 1880.. Augustus Pitt Rivers founded the Pitt [Rivers Museum] at the University of Oxford. His descendants include:
- 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.