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Major Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (27 May 1917 – December 1999) was a West Country landowner who gained notoriety in Britain in the 1950s when he was put on trial charged with buggery.
Michael Pitt-Rivers. Major Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (27 May 1917 – December 1999) was the cousin of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu and great grandson of Lt-Gen A H Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers whose ethnographic collection formed the basis of the Pitt-Rivers collection at the museum in Oxford.
The Museum displays archaeological and ethnographic objects from all parts of the world. The General Pitt Rivers's founding gift contained more than 26,000 objects, but there are now over half a million. The extensive photographic and sound archives contain early records of great importance.
Major Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (27 May 1917 – December 1999) was a West Country landowner who gained notoriety in Britain in the 1950s when he was put on trial charged with buggery.
A biography of Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers. The following account borrows heavily from the two published biographies of Pitt-Rivers by Mark Bowden (1991) and Michael Thompson (1977) as well as the unpublished thesis by William Chapman (1981).
He was a man with a mission in life: to unveil the laws of cultural evolution. He saw the facts of human remains as a continuous process of growth and decay, and just as Darwin applied these two component elements to his theory of continuity in nature, Pitt-Rivers applied them to the material arts.
Michael Pitt-Rivers was the latest in the Pitt family line to live at Rushmore, he too was passionate about all elements of the estate; it’s unique history; it’s rich biodiversity; and it’s stunning beauty, and he was resolute in his views that it should be maintained as such for future generations to enjoy.
