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PITTANCE (through O. Fr. pitance, from See also: house for masses, consisting usually of an extra allowance of See also: food or See also: wine on occasions such as the anniversary of the donor's See also: death, festivals and the like
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The word was early transferred to a charitable donation and to any small gift of food or See also: money
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PITT-See also: RIVERS, See also: AUGUSTUS See also: HENRY LANE-
See also: FOX (1827-1900), See also: English soldier and archaeologist, son of W
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A
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Lane-Fox, was See also: born on the 14th of See also: April 1827
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It was not till 188o that he assumed the name of Pitt-Rivers, on inheriting the See also: Dorsetshire and See also: Wiltshire estates of his See also: great-See also: uncle, the second See also: Lord Rivers
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Educated at See also: Sandhurst, he received a commission in - the See also: Grenadier See also: Guards in 1845, being captain 185o, See also: lieutenant-colonel 1857, colonel 1867, major-general 1877 and lieutenant-general 1882
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He served in the See also: Crimean War, and was at the See also: Alma and the siege of Sebastopol
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His talent for experimental research was utilized in investigation into
improvements of the army See also: rifle, and he was largely responsible for starting the See also: Hythe School of Musketry
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It is not, how-ever, for his military career, but for his See also: work as an anthropologist and archaeologist, that General Pitt-Rivers will be remembered
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His See also: interest in the See also: evolution of the rifle early extended itself to other weapons and See also: instruments in the See also: history of See also: man, and he became a See also: collector of articles illustrating the development of human invention
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His collection became famous, and, after being exhibited in 1874-1875 at the Bethnal See also: Green Museum, was presented in 1883 to the university of See also: Oxford
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When, in 188o, General Pitt-Rivers obtained possession of his great-uncle's estates—practically untouched by the excavator since they had been the battleground of the WestSee also: Saxons, the See also: Romans and the Britons—he devoted himself to exploring them
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His excavations round Rushmore resulted in valuable " finds "; he founded a See also: local museum and published several illustrated volumes
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As a scientific archaeologist he attained high See also: rank
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Oxford gave him the D.C.L. in 1886; he was president of the Anthropological Institute, and F.R.S
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He married, in 1853, Alice See also: Margaret, daughter of the second Lord See also: Stanley of Alderley, and had a numerous See also: family; his second daughter became in 1884 the wife of See also: Sir See also: John Lubbock (Lord Avebury)
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General Pitt-Rivers died at Rushmore on the 4th of May 1900
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