Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Augustus Pitt Rivers, Michael Jackson, James Harry Lacey, Stuart Naylor, Seb Hines, Jonathan Webb, Jessica Barden, Fred Cooper, Tom Woolard, Robert Sturdy, John Burman, Charles Midgley, George Smith, Karen Drury. Excerpt: Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (14 April 1827 4 May 1900) 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. Born Augustus Henry Lane Fox at Bramham cum Oglethorpe, Wetherby, Yorkshire on 14 April 1827, he was the son of William Lane Fox and Lady Caroline Douglas, a sister of George Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton . Educated at the Royal Military College Sandhurst and commissioned into the Grenadier Guards, Lane Fox had a long and successful military career, primarily as a staff officer; he served in the Crimea as a lieutenant. He retired in 1882 as a Lieutenant-General. Two years before retirement, Lane Fox inherited the estates of a cousin: Henry Pitt, Baron Rivers and consequently the remainder of the fabulous Richard Rigby fortune. He thereafter adopted the surname Pitt Rivers in honour of his benefactor. Three notable descendants of Augustus are his grandson, the anthropologist and eugenicist, George Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, his great-grandson, the anthropologist and ethnographer, Julian Alfred Lane Pitt-Rivers, and his great-great-grandson, William Speed Lane Fox-Pitt, the equestrian . Pitt Rivers' interests in archaeology and ethnology began in the 1850s, during postings overseas, and he became a noted scientist while he was still a serving military officer. He was elected, in the space of five years, to the Ethnological Society of London (1861...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Wetherby: Augustus Pitt Rivers, Michael Jackson, James Harry Lacey, Stuart Naylor, Seb Hines, Jonathan Webb, Jessica Barden. To get started finding People from Wetherby: Augustus Pitt Rivers, Michael Jackson, James Harry Lacey, Stuart Naylor, Seb Hines, Jonathan Webb, Jessica Barden, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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2010
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People from Wetherby: Augustus Pitt Rivers, Michael Jackson, James Harry Lacey, Stuart Naylor, Seb Hines, Jonathan Webb, Jessica Barden
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Augustus Pitt Rivers, Michael Jackson, James Harry Lacey, Stuart Naylor, Seb Hines, Jonathan Webb, Jessica Barden, Fred Cooper, Tom Woolard, Robert Sturdy, John Burman, Charles Midgley, George Smith, Karen Drury. Excerpt: Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (14 April 1827 4 May 1900) 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. Born Augustus Henry Lane Fox at Bramham cum Oglethorpe, Wetherby, Yorkshire on 14 April 1827, he was the son of William Lane Fox and Lady Caroline Douglas, a sister of George Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton . Educated at the Royal Military College Sandhurst and commissioned into the Grenadier Guards, Lane Fox had a long and successful military career, primarily as a staff officer; he served in the Crimea as a lieutenant. He retired in 1882 as a Lieutenant-General. Two years before retirement, Lane Fox inherited the estates of a cousin: Henry Pitt, Baron Rivers and consequently the remainder of the fabulous Richard Rigby fortune. He thereafter adopted the surname Pitt Rivers in honour of his benefactor. Three notable descendants of Augustus are his grandson, the anthropologist and eugenicist, George Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, his great-grandson, the anthropologist and ethnographer, Julian Alfred Lane Pitt-Rivers, and his great-great-grandson, William Speed Lane Fox-Pitt, the equestrian . Pitt Rivers' interests in archaeology and ethnology began in the 1850s, during postings overseas, and he became a noted scientist while he was still a serving military officer. He was elected, in the space of five years, to the Ethnological Society of London (1861...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Wetherby: Augustus Pitt Rivers, Michael Jackson, James Harry Lacey, Stuart Naylor, Seb Hines, Jonathan Webb, Jessica Barden. To get started finding People from Wetherby: Augustus Pitt Rivers, Michael Jackson, James Harry Lacey, Stuart Naylor, Seb Hines, Jonathan Webb, Jessica Barden, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.