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.
[1] She later studied at Bedford College (University of London), where she was awarded a Bachelor of Science in 1930 with first class honours and an MSc in 1931.
[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.