6-464: Pitt-Rivers is an English surname adopted by later holders of the peerage Baron Rivers . Holders of the surname include: 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
12-557: The County of Southampton, in the Peerage of Great Britain. He was a descendant of John Pitt (16th century), the father of Thomas Pitt, ancestor of the Earls of Londonderry , Barons Camelford and Earls of Chatham , and of Sir William Pitt , whose grandson George Pitt married the daughter of the 2nd Earl Rivers. George Pitt's eldest son and namesake was the aforementioned George Pitt, who was elevated to
18-537: The United Kingdom. He was succeeded in both baronies by his son, the second Baron. He had previously represented Dorset in Parliament. He sold part of the family estates, those around Stratfield Saye House to the nation in about 1814, so that it could be given to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington . On his death in 1829 the barony of 1776 became extinct while he was succeeded in the barony of 1802 according to
24-552: The University of Oxford. His descendants include: Baron Rivers Baron Rivers was a title that was created four times in British history, twice in the Peerage of England , once in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . The first creation came in 1299 when John Rivers was summoned to Parliament as Baron Rivers . The title became extinct on
30-411: The death of the second Baron in circa 1340. The second creation came in 1448 when Richard Woodville , father of Elizabeth Woodville (queen of England), received the title. It was later subsumed when Woodville became Earl Rivers in 1466. Both titles became extinct on the death of the third earl in 1491. The third creation came in 1776 when George Pitt was made Baron Rivers , of Strathfield-Say in
36-454: The peerage in 1776. In 1802 Lord Rivers was created Baron Rivers , of Sudeley Castle in the County of Gloucester, with remainder to 1) his brother General Sir William Augustus Pitt and the heirs male of his body, and 2) William Horace Beckford (son of Peter Beckford of Stapleton in Dorset by his wife Louisa, daughter of Lord Rivers) and the heirs male of his body. This title was in the Peerage of
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