People

• William Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Baron Rivers (1777–1831). Born William Beckford, he adopted the name on inheriting the title from his brother-in-law George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers
  George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers
  George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers was a British politician.He was the only son of George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers and his wife Penelope, daughter of Sir Henry Atkins, 4th baronet of Clapham, Surrey. He succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for Dorset in 1774, retaining the seat until 1790. In...
  
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• George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers
  George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers
  George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers , was a British peer and politician.-Background:Born George Beckford, Lord Rivers was the son of Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Baron Rivers...
  
   (1810–1866)
• Henry Peter Pitt-Rivers, 5th Baron Rivers (1849–1867)
• Horace Pitt-Rivers, 6th Baron Rivers (1814–1880)
• Augustus Pitt Rivers
  Augustus Pitt Rivers
  Lieutenant-General 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.-Life and career:Born Augustus Henry Lane-Fox at...
  
   (1827–1900), ethnologist and archaeologist. Born Augustus Henry Lane Fox, he adopted the surname after inheriting the estates and fortune (but not the title) of his cousin, the 6th Baron Rivers.
• George Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers (1890–1966), anthropologist, grandson of Augustus.
• Julian A. Pitt-Rivers
  Julian A. Pitt-Rivers
  Julian Alfred Pitt-Rivers , was a British social anthropologist, ethnographer, and a professor at universities in three countries.Pitt-Rivers was a great-grandson of the archeologist Augustus Pitt Rivers...
  
   (1919-2001), anthropologist and ethnographer, son of George Henry.
• Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (1907-1990), physiologist
  Physiology
  Physiology is the science of the function of living systems. This includes how organisms, organ systems, organs, cells, and bio-molecules carry out the chemical or physical functions that exist in a living system. The highest honor awarded in physiology is the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...
  
  . At the National Institute for Medical Research
  National Institute for Medical Research
  The National Institute for Medical Research, commonly abbreviated to NIMR, is a medical research facility situated in Mill Hill, on the outskirts of London, England. It is mainly funded by the Medical Research Council, or MRC, and is its largest establishment and the only one designated as an...
  
  , Pitt-Rivers and Jack Gross discovered the active thyroid hormone
  Thyroid hormone
  The thyroid hormones, thyroxine and triiodothyronine , are tyrosine-based hormones produced by the thyroid gland primarily responsible for regulation of metabolism. An important component in the synthesis of thyroid hormones is iodine. The major form of thyroid hormone in the blood is thyroxine ,...
  
   triiodothyronine
  Triiodothyronine
  Triiodothyronine, C15H12I3NO4, also known as T3, is a thyroid hormone. It affects almost every physiological process in the body, including growth and development, metabolism, body temperature, and heart rate....
  
  , publishing "The identification of 3:5:3'-L-triiodothyronine in human plasma" in The Lancet
  The Lancet
  The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal. It is one of the world's best known, oldest, and most respected general medical journals...
  
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Places

• The Pitt Rivers Museum
  Pitt Rivers Museum
  The Pitt Rivers Museum is a museum displaying the archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. The museum is located to the east of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and can only be accessed through that building.The museum was...
  
   at the University of Oxford
  University of Oxford
  The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
  
  , founded by Augustus Pitt Rivers.