Augustus Pitt Rivers

English army officer, ethnologist and archaeologist (1827–1900)

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Lived 1827–1900, aged 73
AcademicsAcademic
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    18 languages
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  • Era
    1827–1900
    Aged 73
  • Awards
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Updated 2026-07-20

Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers 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.

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