Erection date: 1983
Greater London Council
Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, 1827 - 1900, anthropologist and archaeologist, lived here.
SW1, Grosvenor Gardens, 4
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Augustus Pitt-Rivers
Army officer, anthropologist and archaeologist. Born as Augustus Henry Lane F...
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Augustus Pitt-Rivers
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