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{{Short description|English army officer, ethnologist and archaeologist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{Infobox scientist
| honorific_prefix = [[Lieutenant general (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-General]]
| name             = Augustus Pitt Rivers
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRS|FSA|FRAI}}
| image            = A-H-Pitt-Rivers.jpg
| alt              = 
| caption          = 
| birth_name       = Augustus Henry Lane Fox
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1827|4|14|df=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Bramham cum Oglethorpe]], [[Yorkshire]], England
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1900|5|4|1827|4|14|df=y}}
| death_place      = [[Larmer Tree Gardens|Rushmore Estate]], [[Wiltshire]], England
| resting_place    = 
| fields           = [[Ethnology]], [[archaeology]]
| module           = {{Infobox military person
| embed         = yes
| allegiance    = {{Flag|United Kingdom}}
| branch        = {{army|United Kingdom}}
| service_years = 1845–1882
| rank          = [[Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-General]]
| battles       = [[Crimean War]]
*[[Battle of Alma]]
| awards        = 
}}
}}

[[Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-General]] '''Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers''' (born '''Augustus Henry Lane-Fox'''; 14 April 1827{{snd}}4 May 1900) was an English officer in the [[British Army]], [[ethnologist]], and [[archaeologist]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Excavating Pitt-Rivers project|url=http://excavatingpittrivers.blogspot.co.uk/|publisher=Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford|access-date=2 August 2016}}</ref> 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.{{sfnp|Green|2014}}

Throughout most of his life he used the surname Lane Fox, under which his early archaeological reports are published. In 1880 he [[Name change#Historical usage|adopted the Pitt Rivers name]] on inheriting from Lord Rivers (a cousin) an estate of more than 32,000 acres in [[Cranborne Chase]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bowden|first1=Mark|title=Reviewed work: Pitt Rivers. The Life and Archaeological Work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, DCL, FRS, FSA, Mark Bowden |journal=Journal of Field Archaeology|volume=21|issue=2|date=1991|publisher=Cambridge University|isbn=0-521-400775|pages=249–251|jstor=529871|doi=10.2307/529871}}</ref>

His family name is often spelled as "Pitt-Rivers".<ref name=family>Spelling as "Pitt-Rivers" e.g. in {{harvnb|Tylor|1901}}, {{harvnb|Green|2014}}, [https://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr/index.html "RPR"], [https://excavatingpittrivers.blogspot.com/ Excavating Pitt-Rivers]</ref> His middle name is sometimes spelled as "Lane-Fox".<ref name=Lane-Fox>Spelling as "Lane-Fox" e.g. in {{harvtxt|Chisholm|1911}} and in Pitt-Rivers (1906) – ''The Evolution of Culture''.</ref><ref name=spelling>See also: {{cite web |url=https://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr/index.php/article-index/12-articles/272-pitt-rivers-or-pitt-rivers.html | title=What's in a name? Or a hyphen? |publisher=Rethinking Pitt-Rivers |website=web.prm.ox.ac.uk |access-date=2020-08-01 |date=May 2011}}</ref> The surname he adopted following the Royal Licence was Fox-Pitt-Rivers. <ref>{{cite book | title = The London Gazette, 22 June 1880, p. 3591|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24857/page/3591}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = The London Gazette, 26 September 1882, p. 4384|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/25150/page/4384}}</ref>

==Early life and family==
Born at [[Bramham cum Oglethorpe]] near [[Wetherby]] in [[Yorkshire]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Pitt Rivers and Yorkshire |url=http://excavatingpittrivers.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/pitt-rivers-and-yorkshire.html/ |publisher=Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford |access-date=19 October 2012 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120045110/http://excavatingpittrivers.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/pitt-rivers-and-yorkshire.html |archive-date=20 January 2016}}</ref> he was the son of William Lane-Fox and Lady Caroline Douglas, sister of [[George Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton]]. The politicians [[George Lane-Fox (MP)|George Lane-Fox]] and [[Sackville Lane-Fox]] were his uncles.

On 3 February 1853,<ref>http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ – search on Fox or Stanley</ref> Pitt-Rivers (still under the surname Fox) married The Honourable Alice Margaret Stanley (1828–1910), daughter of the politician [[Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley]] and of the women's education campaigner [[Henrietta Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley]]. Alice had a slew of siblings active in the public issues of the day, several of whom married into prominent families. The Pitt Rivers Museum suggests that some of the founding collection, particularly some Indian items, may have come from John Constantine Stanley (1837–1878), younger brother of Alice.<ref>{{cite web |title=Stanley family's collection of ethnographic objects |url=https://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr/index.php/articles-index/12-articles/506-stanley-familys-collection/index.html |website=web.prm.ox.ac.uk |access-date=31 May 2021}}</ref>

In 1880, Lane Fox inherited the estates of his cousin, [[Horace Pitt-Rivers, 6th Baron Rivers]] and with it the remainder of the [[Richard Rigby]] fortune. It was "an event that transformed his life". He was [[Name change#Historical usage|required to adopt the surname]] Pitt-Rivers as part of the bequest 'either alone or in addition to his or their surname'.<ref name=":0" />

==Descendants==
Augustus and Alice had nine children who reached adulthood; they were born between 1855 and 1866.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr/index.php/pitt-rivers-life/10-biography-of-general-pitt-rivers/ |title=Biography of General Pitt-Rivers |last1=Burt |first1=Daniel |website=web.prm.ox.ac.uk |publisher=Rethinking Pitt-Rivers |language=en-gb |access-date=2018-04-07}}</ref> As they were all born before Augustus took the new surname in 1880, their births are registered under the name of Fox (or Lane-Fox).

# Alexander Edward Lane Fox-Pitt-Rivers, 2 November 1855{{snd}}19 August 1927, married [[Lord Henry Thynne|Alice Ruth Hermione Thynne]].
# [[St George Lane Fox-Pitt]], 14 September 1856{{snd}}6 April 1932, electrical engineer, author, and student of psychic phenomena. 
# William Augustus Lane Fox-Pitt, 9 January 1858{{snd}}1945?.
# Ursula Katharine Lane Fox-Pitt, 1859?{{snd}}1942. 
# Lionel Charles Lane Fox-Pitt, 5 November 1860{{snd}}1937?.
# Alice Augusta Laurentia Lane Fox-Pitt, circa 1862{{snd}}11 March 1947, married [[John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury]].<ref>{{cite news |title=The marriage of Sir John Lubbock ... |work=The Cornishman |issue=304 |date=15 May 1884 |page=6}}</ref> 
# [[Agnes Geraldine Grove|Agnes Geraldine Fox-Pitt]], 25 July 1863{{snd}}7 December 1926.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|title=Grove, (Agnes) Geraldine [née (Agnes) Geraldine Lane Fox; afterwards (Agnes) Geraldine Fox-Pitt], Lady Grove (1863–1926), essayist|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-55591|year=2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/55591|last1=Schneller|first1=Beverly E.}}</ref> 
# Douglas Henry Lane Fox-Pitt, 17 December 1864{{snd}}19 September 1922. 
# Arthur Algernon Lane Fox-Pitt, 12 April 1866{{snd}}6 November 1895.

Augustus' descendants include his grandson, anthropologist, eugenicist, and anti-Semite [[George Pitt-Rivers]], who was interned in 1940 under [[Defence Regulation 18B]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Griffiths|first1=Richard|title=Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British Anti-Semitism 1939–40 |year=1998 |publisher= Constable|pages=54, 65}}</ref> George's children included [[Michael Pitt-Rivers]], and his brother, anthropologist and [[ethnographer]] [[Julian A. Pitt-Rivers]]. A further generation includes Augustus's great-great-grandson, [[Equestrianism|equestrian]] [[William Fox-Pitt]].
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==Military career==
Lane Fox had a long and successful military career as a [[staff officer]]. He was educated at the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]], for six months at the age of fourteen and was commissioned into the [[Grenadier Guards]] on 16 May 1845 as an [[Ensign (rank)#United Kingdom|ensign]].<ref name="LG 16 May 1845">{{London Gazette |issue=20471 |date=16 May 1845 |page=1472 }}</ref> In the course of a thirty-two-year military career, albeit much interrupted by leave, he only once saw major front line action, at the [[Battle of Alma]] in 1854. Soon after the battle, he was found unfit for active service and returned to England.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Roberts |first=Alice |title=Ancestors |publisher=Simon & Schuster UK |year=2021 |isbn=978-1-4711-8804-6 |pages=212}}</ref> In 1851 he became a member of the committee to experiment and report on the respective merits of the army's smoothbore muskets. He was appointed to Woolwich to instruct in the use of the new [[Minié rifle]] in 1852. Subsequently, he was largely responsible for founding the Hythe school of Musketry in Kent and became its principal instructor, revising its ''Instruction of Musketry'' manual. The remainder of his service career revolved around musketry instruction and in 1858 he published a paper ''On the improvement of the rifle as a weapon for general use''.<ref name="Evans 2014">{{cite journal|last1=Evans|first1=Christopher|title=Soldiering Archaeology: Pitt Rivers and 'Militarism'|journal=Bulletin of the History of Archaeology|date=30 January 2014|volume=4|issue=24|url=http://www.archaeologybulletin.org/article/view/bha.244/595|access-date=4 August 2014|archive-date=28 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140428161423/http://www.archaeologybulletin.org/article/view/bha.244/595|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|oclc=85009924|title = On the improvement of the rifle, as a weapon for general use|last1 = Pitt-Rivers|first1 = Augustus Henry|date = 1858|location = London|publisher = W. Clowes & Sons}}</ref> He bought a promotion to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] on 2 August 1850.<ref name="LG 2 August 1850">{{London Gazette |issue=21123 |date=2 August 1850 |page=2132 }}</ref> He was promoted to the [[brevet rank]] of [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant-colonel]] of the army "for distinguished Service in the Field" during the [[Crimean War]].<ref name="LG 12 December 1854">{{London Gazette |issue=21640 |date=12 December 1854 |page=4052 }}</ref> On 15 May 1857, he [[Purchase of commissions in the British Army|bought the rank]] of lieutenant-colonel in the Grenadier Guards.<ref name="LG 15 May 1857">{{London Gazette |issue=22002 |date=15 May 1857 |page=1734 }}</ref> The then [[Brevet (military)#United Kingdom|brevet]]-[[major (United Kingdom)|major]] Lane Fox was appointed a member of the Fifth Class of the [[Order of the Medjidie]] in 1858 for "distinguished services before the enemy during the [Crimean War]".<ref name="LG 2 March 1858">{{London Gazette |issue=22107 |date=2 March 1858 |page=1258 }}</ref> He was promoted to [[colonel]] on 22 January 1867<ref name="LG 26 February 1867">{{London Gazette |issue=23223 |date=26 February 1867 |page=1025 }}</ref> and [[major-general (United Kingdom)|major-general]] in 1877.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} Pitt Rivers retired in 1882 and was accorded the honorary rank of [[lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)|lieutenant-general]].

==Archaeological career==
Pitt Rivers' interests in archaeology and ethnology began in the 1850s, during postings overseas, and he became a noted scientist while he was a serving military officer. His interest began with the evolution of the rifle, which extended to other weapons and tools, and he became a collector of artefacts illustrating the development of human invention. His collection became famous, and, after being exhibited in 1874–1875 at the [[Bethnal Green Museum]], London, was presented in 1885 to the University of Oxford.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Pitt-Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane-Fox|volume=21|page=678}}</ref> He was elected, in the space of five years, to the [[Ethnological Society of London]] (1861), the [[Society of Antiquaries of London]] (1864) and the [[Anthropological Society of London]] (1865).

In 1867, Pitt Rivers left full-time military service and went on [[half pay]].<ref name=petch>{{cite web|url=https://england.prm.ox.ac.uk/englishness-Pitt-Rivers-and-Yorkshire.html|title=Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers and Yorkshire|first=Alison|last=Petch|website=England: The Other Within|publisher=Oxford University|date=March 2009|access-date=6 February 2023}}</ref> The same year, he visited an archaeological excavation being carried out in the [[Yorkshire Wolds]] by Canon [[William Greenwell]], librarian of [[Durham Cathedral]] and an established archaeologist, to whom he may have been introduced by mutual friends [[George Rolleston]] or [[Albert Way]]. Pitt Rivers received his first instruction in excavation from Greenwell, and later described himself as Greenwell's pupil.<ref name=petch /><ref name=petch2>{{cite web|url=http://england.prm.ox.ac.uk/englishness-Pitt-Rivers-Yorkshire-excavations.html|first=Alison|last=Petch|title=Pitt Rivers' excavations in Yorkshire|date=March 2009|website=England: The Other Within|publisher=Oxford University|access-date=6 February 2023}}</ref> Greenwell viewed archaeology as a serious scholarly process of assembling evidence on periods which lacked written records, contrasted to the "ignorant and greedy spirit of mere curiosity-hunting"; views that would influence Pitt Rivers' own approach.<ref name=onbgreenwell>{{cite ODNB|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/33542|chapter=Greenwell, William|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|first=Arthur|last=Burns|chapter-url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-33542|date=23 September 2004}}</ref><ref name=petch />

By the time he retired, he had amassed ethnographic collections numbering tens of thousands of items from all over the world. Influenced by the evolutionary writings of [[Charles Darwin]] and [[Herbert Spencer]], he arranged them typologically and (within types) chronologically. He viewed archaeology as an extension of anthropology and, as consequence, built up matching collections of archaeological and ethnographic objects to show longer developmental sequences to support his views on cultural evolution.<ref name="Bowden 1991">{{cite book|last1=Bowden|first1=Mark|title=Pitt Rivers; The life and archaeological work of Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers|date=1991|publisher=Cambridge University|location=Cambridge|isbn=0-521-400775|pages=65}}</ref> This style of arrangement, designed to highlight evolutionary trends in human artefacts, was a revolutionary innovation in museum design.

Pitt Rivers' ethnological collections form the basis of the [[Pitt Rivers Museum]] which is still one of [[Oxford]]'s attractions. His researches and collections cover periods from the [[Lower Paleolithic]] to Roman and medieval times, and extend all over the world.<ref name="Penniman 1946">{{cite journal|last1=Penniman|first1=T.K|title=General Pitt Rivers|journal=Man|date=Jul–Aug 1946|volume=46|pages=73–74|jstor=2793146}}</ref> The Pitt Rivers Museum curates more than half a million ethnographic and archaeological artefacts, photographic and manuscript collections from all parts of the world. The museum was founded in 1884 when the university accepted the gift of more than 20,000 artefacts from Pitt Rivers. The university awarded him the [[Doctorate of Civil Law]] in 1886, and he was later named a Fellow of the Royal Society.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} The collections continue to grow, and the museum has been described as one of the "six great ethnological museums of the world".<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Petch|first1=Alison|title=Notes and Queries and the Pitt Rivers Museum|journal=Museum Anthropology|date=March 2007|volume=30|issue=1|pages=21–39|doi=10.1525/mua.2007.30.1.21}}</ref>

Pitt Rivers' Wessex Collection is housed in [[The Salisbury Museum]], not far from [[Stonehenge]]. The Wessex Gallery of archaeology opened in 2014, funded by the [[Heritage Lottery Fund]] and other sources. Pitt Rivers and other early archaeologists such as [[William Stukeley]] who first investigated the prehistory of Wiltshire, [[Cranborne Chase]], [[Avebury]] and Stonehenge, are celebrated in the gallery.

The estates Pitt Rivers inherited in 1880 contained a wealth of archaeological material from the [[Roman Britain|Roman]] and [[Saxon Britain|Saxon]] periods. He excavated these over seventeen seasons, from the mid-1880s until his death. His approach was highly methodical by the standards of the time, and he is widely regarded as the first scientific archaeologist to work in Britain. His most important methodological innovation was his insistence that ''all'' artefacts, not just beautiful or unique ones, be collected and catalogued. This focus on everyday objects as the key to understanding the past broke decisively with earlier archaeological practice, which verged on treasure hunting. It is Pitt Rivers' most important, and most lasting, scientific legacy. His work inspired [[Mortimer Wheeler]], among others, to add to the scientific approach of archaeological excavation techniques.

Following the passage of the [[Ancient Monuments Protection Act 1882]], Pitt Rivers became the first Inspector of Ancient Monuments: a post created by anthropologist and parliamentarian [[John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury|John Lubbock]] who married Pitt Rivers' daughter, Alice. Charged with cataloguing archaeological sites and protecting them from destruction, he worked with his customary methodical zeal but was hampered by the limitations of the law, which gave him little real power over the landowners on whose property the sites stood. On the advice of Pitt-Rivers, [[Kit's Coty House]] and [[Little Kit's Coty House]], Kent, were among the first ancient British remains to be protected by the state. Railings were erected around the stones there to prevent vandalism.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/kits-coty-house-and-little-kits-coty-house/history/|title = History of Kit's Coty House and Little Kit's Coty House}}</ref>

Pitt Rivers was a leading member of the [[Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society]], and was president of the society from 1890<ref>{{Cite journal |last= |first= |date=1891 |title=Annual General Meeting, 30 July 1890 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12673613 |journal=[[Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine]] |volume=25 |issue=75 |pages=235 |via=[[Biodiversity Heritage Library]] {{open access}}}}</ref> to 1893.<ref name=":02">{{Cite journal |last= |first= |date=1894 |title=Annual General Meeting, July 1893 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12683697 |journal=[[Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine]] |volume=27 |issue=81 |pages=194–196 |via=[[Biodiversity Heritage Library]] {{open access}}}}</ref>
[[File:Blue plaque, Grosvenor Gardens, Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers London residence.jpg|alt=London residence of Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, Grosvenor Gardens, SW1. |thumb|His Blue Plaque, Grosvenor Gardens, London, SW1.]]

== Other interests ==
The Rushmore estate near [[Tollard Royal]] in Wiltshire was part of his 1880 inheritance, and there he created the [[Larmer Tree Gardens]], a [[pleasure garden]] which was opened to the public in 1885.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1000478|desc=Larmer Tree Grounds|access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref>

In 1884 he served as [[High Sheriff of Dorset]].<ref>{{London Gazette
| issue = 25325
| date = 4 March 1884
| page = 1117
}}</ref>[[File:Memorial to Pitt-Rivers - geograph.org.uk - 223649.jpg|thumb|Memorial to Augustus Pitt Rivers in St Peter's Church at [[Tollard Royal]]]]Pitt Rivers was an advocate for [[cremation]]. Even though many people believed that it was immoral to destroy a corpse, the cremation movement favoured a practical way to dispose of bodies. Pitt Rivers was cremated after his death in 1900.

== Bibliography ==
Among the publications of August Pitt Rivers are:
* {{cite book | last = Fox | first = Lane | author-link=Augustus Pitt Rivers
| date = 1858
| title = On the improvement of the rifle, as a weapon for general use
| location = London
| publisher = W. Clowes and Sons
| id = {{OCLC|85009924|show=all}}
| url = https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-50318241
| access-date = 2020-08-02
| ref=none
}}
*Excavations on Cranborne Chase (4 volumes)
*Excavations on Bokerly and Wansdyke

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

==References==
* {{cite journal | last1 = Petch | first1 = A | year = 2007 | title = Notes and Queries and the Pitt Rivers Museum | journal = Museum Anthropology | volume = 30 | pages = 21–39 | doi = 10.1525/mua.2007.30.1.21 }}
* Bowden, Mark (1984) ''General Pitt Rivers: The father of scientific archaeology''. [[Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum]]. {{ISBN|0-947535-00-4}}.
* Bowden, Mark (1991) ''Pitt Rivers: The life and archaeological work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers''. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|0-521-40077-5}}
* Bowden, Mark (2000) "[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/past/past34.html#pittrivers Lieutenant-General A.H.L.F. Pitt Rivers]", ''Past'' – Newsletter of the [[Prehistoric Society]], '''34''' (April)
* {{Cite journal | last1 = Evans | first1 = C | year = 2014 | title = Soldiering Archaeology: Pitt Rivers and 'Militarism' | journal = Bulletin of the History of Archaeology | volume = 24 | page = 4 | doi = 10.5334/bha.244 | doi-access = free }}
* {{Cite journal | doi=10.1179/1936981614Z.00000000033 | title = Salisbury Museum and General Pitt-Rivers's Wessex Collection, 1975–2014 | journal=Museum History Journal | volume=7 | issue=2 | pages=224–243 | year = 2014 | last1 = Green | first1 = Adrian | s2cid = 162219980 }}
*Penniman, T.K. General Pitt Rivers Man, Vol. 46, (July{{snd}}August 1946), pp.&nbsp;73–74. Published by: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Article Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2793146
* Thompson, M.W. (1977) ''General Pitt Rivers: Evolution and archaeology in the nineteenth century''. Bradford-on-Avon : Moonraker Press. {{ISBN|0-239-00162-1}}
* {{cite DNBSupp|wstitle=Pitt-Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane Fox |first=Edward Burnett|last=Tylor}}

==Further reading==
*{{cite book| last1= Waterfield| first1= Herminone| last2= King| first2= J. C. H.| year= 2006| title = Provenance: Twelve Collectors of Ethnographic Art in England 1760–1990| publisher= Somogy éditions d'art| location= Paris| isbn= 978-1903470961}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Augustus Pitt Rivers}}
* {{wikisource author-inline}}
* [http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/ The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford], with [http://history.prm.ox.ac.uk/collector_pittrivers.html biography]
* [http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk/galleries/index.php?Action=2&obID=10 The Pitt Rivers Galleries] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090802112621/http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk/galleries/index.php?Action=2&obID=10 |date=2 August 2009 }} at [[Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum]]
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qwgxx Augustus Pitt-Rivers] on [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''[[In Our Time (BBC Radio 4)|In Our Time]]'', with links and further reading
* {{Gutenberg author | id=42518| name=Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers}}
* {{Internet Archive author |name=Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers}}
* [[William Tomkin]] (W.S. Tomkin) Assistant 1882–1890

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