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ARCHAEOLOGIST

Augustus Pitt Rivers

1827 - 1900

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Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (14 April 1827 – 4 May 1900) was an English officer in the British Army, ethnologist, and archaeologist. 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.Throughout most of his life he used the surname Lane Fox, under which his early archaeological reports are published. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Augustus Pitt Rivers has received more than 219,283 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Augustus Pitt Rivers is the 135th most popular archaeologist, the 5,772nd most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 31st most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Augustus Pitt Rivers ranks 135 out of 104Before him are J. P. Mallory, Davidson Black, Grahame Clark, Franz Weidenreich, Nancy Dupree, and Salima Ikram. After him are Leonardo López Luján.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Augustus Pitt Rivers ranks 63Before him are Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Barbara Bodichon, William Burges, Afzal-ud-Daulah, Hiram Rhodes Revels, and William Windom. After him is Milton Latham. Among people deceased in 1900, Augustus Pitt Rivers ranks 83Before him are Ali Shah Durrani, George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, Tomás Gomensoro Albín, Ernest Dowson, George Grove, and R. D. Blackmore.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Augustus Pitt Rivers ranks 5,772 out of 7,765Before him are Christopher Malcolm (1946), Dennis Wilshaw (1926), Jude Bellingham (2003), John Simm (1970), Agyness Deyn (1983), and Rachel Whiteread (1963). After him are Matt Lucas (1974), Himesh Patel (1990), Damien Magee (1945), Sean Maguire (1976), Kevin Phillips (1973), and David Oakes (1983).

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, Augustus Pitt Rivers ranks 31Before him are Colin Groves (1942), Ian Hodder (1948), Mortimer Wheeler (1890), Bernard Pyne Grenfell (1869), Arthur Surridge Hunt (1871), and Grahame Clark (1907).