Michael Pitt-Rivers

Career Landowner / Writer

Biography Michael Pitt-Rivers inherited the Rushmore estate and re-opened the Larmer Tree Gardens set up by his great-grandfather, Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers [qv] [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 22/02/2007]

Biography References http://www.knittingcircle.org.uk/purge1950s.html / http://www.savills.co.uk/rural/content.aspx?type=rural&contenttype=casestudies / http://www.orwelltoday.com/orwellwriterwronged.shtml / http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/past/past34.html#pittrivers

County Wiltshire

Relationship Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1971

Date made around 1900

Dates active ?-1999

Donated around 1971

English collections Compass case, surveyor's cross, tool box & 13 drawing implements, pocket level in case, box containing die & 23 medallions (for excavations), gyroscope in box, microscope with reflector, lens in case, & 5 slides, in box, 2 scale rulers & set square in case, craniometer in case, callipers in case, slide rule with instruction booklet, in case, case of 6 draughting scales

Oxford Uni Education Unknown

Oxford based No

English collection size 74

Connections Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers / Anthony Pitt-Rivers / Joseph Allen Galbraith / Ministry of Public Building and Works / Aston and Mander, London / Elliot Bros. / Messrs W.F. Stanley / West