Person Pitt-Rivers; Augustus Henry Lane Fox (1827 - 1900) Pitt-Rivers Augustus Henry Lane Fox Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt- Augustus Henry Lane- Augustus Henry Rivers Fox Lane-Fox 1827 - 1900 British Male 14 April 1827 Rushmore, Wiltshire 04/05/1900 19000504

Guildford, Surrey (1875); Rushmore, Wiltshire (1880)

Education: Sandhurst Career: Commissioned in the Grenedier Guards (1845); Captain (1850); served in the Crimean War; Major (1857); Lieutenant Colonel (1867); Major General (1877); Lieutenant General (1882); founded the Hythe School of Musketry; his collection was housed by the government first at Bethnal Green, then South Kensington, finally given to Oxford University and placed in the Pitt-Rivers Museum (1883) Son of William Augustus Lane Fox of Hope Hall, Yorkshire, and his wife Lady Caroline, granddaughter of James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton (FRS 1733); assumed the name of Pitt-Rivers when he inherited the estate of his great uncle, George Pitt 2nd Baron Rivers (1880); married (1853) Alice Margaret, daughter of 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderly; father-in-law of Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (FRS 1858) Fellow 01/06/1876 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB References: Quentin Bone, 'Excavator Extraordinary', review of Mark Bowden, Pitt Rivers: The Life and Archaeological Work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, DCL, FRS, FSA in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 159-162, plate Clive Gamble and Theodora Moutsiou 'The time revolution and he stratification of the primeval mnd' NR, 2011, Vol 65, pp43-64 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Anglo American Cataloguing Rules (second edition) rules for double barrelled and compound surnames 14 Apr 1827 - 4 May 1900 NA8014 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/71454667 ef210e1f-f9a3-488b-8477-606f7633acc6