Pitt-Rivers

Pitt-Rivers is an English surname adopted by the later Baron Rivers.

People

• William Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Baron Rivers (1777–1831). Born William Beckford, he adopted the name on inheriting the title from his brother-in-law George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers.
• George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers (1810–1866)
• Henry Peter Pitt-Rivers, 5th Baron Rivers (1849–1867)
• Horace Pitt-Rivers, 6th Baron Rivers (1814–1880)
• Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827–1900), ethnologist and archaeologist. Born Augustus Henry Lane-Fox, he adopted the surname after inheriting the estates and fortune (but not the title) of his cousin, the 6th Baron Rivers.
• George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (1890–1966), anthropologist, grandson of Augustus.
• Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (1907-1990), physiologist, 2nd wife of George Henry. At the National Institute for Medical Research, Pitt-Rivers and Jack Gross discovered the active thyroid hormone triiodothyronine, publishing "The identification of 3:5:3'-L-triiodothyronine in human plasma" in The Lancet.
• Michael Pitt-Rivers (1917–1999), son of George Henry, who gained notoriety in Britain in the 1950s when he was put on trial charged with buggery.
• Julian A. Pitt-Rivers (1919-2001), anthropologist and ethnographer, son of George Henry.

Places

• The Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford, founded by Augustus Pitt Rivers.