Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers ( 1827 - 1900 )

Birth: 14 April 1827 Death: Rushmore, Wiltshire (04 May 1900) Education: Sandhurst Career: Commissioned in the Grenedier Guards (1845); Captain (1850); served in the Crimean War; Major (1857); Lieutenant Colonel (1867); Major General (1877); Lieutenant General (1882); founded the Hythe School of Musketry; his collection was housed by the government first at Bethnal Green, then South Kensington, finally given to Oxford University and placed in the Pitt-Rivers Museum (1883) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 1/06/1876.