Augustus Pitt Rivers
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1827 – 1900
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Who was Augustus Pitt Rivers?
Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers was an English army officer, ethnologist, and archaeologist. He was noted for his innovations in archaeological methods, and in the museum display of archaeological and ethnological collections. His collection of about 22,000 objects formed the founding collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford.
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- Born
- Apr 14, 1827
Bramham cum Oglethorpe - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- England
- Education
- Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
- Lived in
- Wetherby
- Died
- May 4, 1900
Wiltshire
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on July 23, 2013
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