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== Name Origin ==
'''Pitt-Rivers''' is an English surname adopted by later holders of the peerage [[Baron Rivers]]. Holders of the surname include:

* [[Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Baron Rivers]] (1777–1831); born William Beckford, 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), elder son of Horace (1777–1831)
* [[Henry Pitt-Rivers, 5th Baron Rivers]] (1849–1867), son of George (1810–1866)
* [[Horace Pitt-Rivers, 6th Baron Rivers]] (1814–1880), younger son of Horace (1777–1831)
The surname was adopted by the ethnologist and archaeologist [[Augustus Henry Lane-Fox]] (1827–1900) when he inherited from Horace in 1880. (He was Horace's second-cousin, via a different daughter of George Pitt, 2nd Baron). Augustus Pitt Rivers founded the [[Pitt Rivers Museum]] at the University of Oxford. His descendants include:
* [[George Pitt-Rivers]] (1890–1966), anthropologist, grandson of Augustus
* [[Rosalind Pitt-Rivers]] (1907–1990), physiologist, joint discoverer of the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine, second wife of the above
* [[Michael Pitt-Rivers]] (1917–1999), George (1890–1966)'s son, who gained notoriety when put on trial charged with buggery
* [[Julian Pitt-Rivers]] (1919–2001), anthropologist and ethnographer, the second son
*(George) Anthony Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers (born 1932), third son, who married in 1964 [[Valerie Pitt-Rivers|Valerie]], who was [[Lord Lieutenant of Dorset]] 2006–2014.

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[[Category:Compound surnames]]
[[Category:Surnames of English origin]]

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