Plaque

Augustus Pitt-Rivers

Erection date: 1983

Inscription

Greater London Council
Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, 1827 - 1900, anthropologist and archaeologist, lived here.

Site: Augustus Pitt-Rivers (1 memorial)

SW1, Grosvenor Gardens, 4

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Augustus Pitt-Rivers

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