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ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN
Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

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Explore the database of all the people associated with the Pitt Rivers English collections. This gives information about their lives; their education, careers, place of residence, and their network of friends and colleagues. Select the first letter of their surname from the list below.

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William Augustus Lane Fox-Pitt

Career Army

Biography Third son of Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers [qv]. After education at Charterhouse he joined the Grenadier Guards and served in the 'Zulu' wars. He also seems to have served in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 19/12/2007]

County No counties listed

Relationship Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Date made around circa 1850

Dates active 1858-1945

Donated around 1884

English collections Dagger and sheath

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

English collection size 2

Connections Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers

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