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PITT-RIVERS, AUGUSTUS HENRY LANE-FOX (1827-1900) English soldier and archa eologist, son of W. A. Lane-Fox, was bom on the I4th of April 1827. It w as not till 1880 that h assumed the name of Pitt-Rivers, on inheriting t he Dorsetshir and Wiltshire estates of his great-uncle, the second Lord Ri vers Educated at Sandhurst, he received a commission in th Grenadier Guar ds in 1845, being captain 1850, lieutenant colonel 1857, colonel 1867, maj or-general 1877 and lieutenant general 1882. He served in the Crimean Wa r, and was a the Alma and the siege of Sebastopol. His talent fo experimen tal research was utilized in investigation into mprovements of the army ri fle, and he was largely responsible or starting the Hythe School of Musket ry. It is not, however, for his military career, but for his work as an an thro->ologist and archaeologist, that General Pitt-Rivers will je remember ed. His interest in the evolution of the rifle early extended itself to ot her weapons and instruments in the listory of man, and he became a collect or of articles illustrating :he development of human invention. His collec tion became amous, and, after being exhibited in 1874-1875 at the Bethn al 3reen Museum, was presented in 1883 to the university of Oxford. Whe n, in 1880, General Pitt-Rivers obtained possession of his great-uncle's e statespractically untouched by the excavator since they had been the battl eground of the West Saxons, the Romans and the Britonshe devoted himse lf to exploring them. His excavations round Rushmore resulted in valuab le " finds "; he founded a local museum and published several illustrat ed volumes. As a scientific archaeologist he attained high rank. Oxford ga ve him the D.C.L. in 1886; he was president of the Anthropological Institu te, and F.R.S. He married, in 1853, Alice Margaret, daughter of the seco nd Lord Stanley of Alderley, and had a numerous family; his second daught er became in 1884 the wife of Sir John Lubbock (Lord Avebury). General Pit t-Rivers died at Rushmore on the 4th of May 1900.
Augustus Pitt Rivers
Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (14th April, 1827-1900) was an Engli sh army officer, ethnologist, and archaeologist. He was noted for his inno vations in archaeological methods, and in the museum display of archaeolog ical and ethnological collections.
Born Augustus Henry Lane Fox at Bramham, Yorkshire on 14th April 182 7, he was the son of William Lane Fox and Lady Caroline Douglas, a Scotti sh noblewoman. Educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and commis sioned into the Grenadier Guards, Lane Fox had a long and successful milit ary career, primarily as a staff officer. He retired in 1882 as a Lieutena nt-General. Two years before retirement, Lane Fox inherited the estat es of a cousin: Henry Pitt, Baron Rivers. He thereafter adopted the surna me Pitt Rivers (sometimes spelled Pitt-Rivers) in honor of his benefacto r.
Pitt Rivers' interests in archaeology and ethnology began in the 1850s, du ring postings overseas, and he became a noted scientist while he was sti ll a serving military officer. He was elected, in the space of five year s, to the Ethnological Society of London (1861), the Society of Antiquari es of London (1864) and the Anthropological Society of London (1865). By t he time he retired he had amassed ethnographic collections numbering te ns of thousands of items from all over the world. Influenced by the evolut ionary writings of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, he arranged them ty pologically and (within types) chronologically. This style of arrangemen t, designed to highlight the evolutionary trends in human artifacts, w as a revolutionary innovation in museum design. Pitt Rivers' ethnologic al collections today form the basis of the Pitt Rivers Museum which is sti ll one of Oxford's leading attractions.
The estates that Pitt Rivers inherited in 1880 contained a wealth of archa eological material from the Roman and Saxon periods. He excavated these ov er seventeen seasons, beginning in the mid-1880s and ending with his deat h. His approach was highly methodical by the standards of the time, a nd he is widely regarded as the first scientific archaeologist to wo rk in Britain. His most important methodological innovation was his insist ence that all artifacts, not just beautiful or unique ones, be collected a nd cataloged. This focus on everyday objects as the key to understanding t he past broke decisively with past archaeological practice, which had oft en verged on treasure hunting. It is Pitt Rivers most important, and mo st lasting scientific legacy.
From 1882 Pitt Rivers served as Britain's first Inspector of Ancient Monum ents: a post created by anthropologist and parliamentarian John Lubbock. C harged with cataloging archaeological sites and protecting them from destr uction, he worked with his customary methodical zeal but was hampered by t he limitations of the law, which gave him little real power over the lando wners on whose property the sites stood.
References
Bowden, M.C., 1984, General Pitt-Rivers: The Father of Scientific Archaeol ogy. Salisbury: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum.
Bowden, M.C., 1991, Pitt Rivers : The Life and Archaeological Work of Lieu tenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers. Cambridge: Cambridge U niversity Press.
M. W. Thompson, 1977, General Pitt-Rivers: Evolution and Archaeology in t he Nineteenth Century. Moonraker Press.
External Links
The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
Pitt Rivers and the Pitt Rivers Museum
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