Rosalind Pitt-Rivers

Rosalind Venetia Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers FRS[1] (née Henley; 4 March 1907 – 14 January 1990) was a British biochemist.[3] Pitt-Rivers was born Rosalind Venetia Henley on 4 March 1907 at 18 Mansfield Street, London, the eldest of four daughters of the Hon.[2][5] In 1931, she married, as his second wife, George Pitt-Rivers (1890–1966), anthropologist and eugenicist, one of the richest men in England[6] and a grandson of Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827–1900), who founded the anthropology museum named after him in Oxford.[2][5][7] During their marriage, her husband had become increasingly pro-eugenics and antisemitic, drawing closer to German eugenicists and praising Mussolini and Hitler; by 1940 he was interned under Defence Regulation 18B.[2] After she separated from Pitt-Rivers in 1937, she returned to study and gained a PhD in biochemistry from University College medical school in 1939.
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