George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers
(1810-1866), Army officer and politicianSitter in 1 portrait
George Pitt-Rivers was an army officer and politician whose collection of objects would form the Pitt-Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford in 1884. Part of Pitt-Rivers’s wealth came from the plantations he inherited from his father in Jamaica. When slavery was abolished in the 1830s, Pitt-Rivers received £9,461 for the 541 enslaved Africans he owned.
Richard de Aquila Grosvenor, 1st Baron Stalbridge; George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers
by Unknown photographer
photogravure, 1850s
NPG x22040
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