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John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, 4th Baronet, PC, DL, FRS, FRAI (30 April 1834 – 28 May 1913), known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet, from 1865 until 1900, was an English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath.
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. (1834-1913), Banker, scientist, writer and politician; MP for Maidstone and London University. Sitter in 24 portraits. Born into an established banking family, he served as its head from 1865 until his death. He also had a lifelong enthusiasm for natural history, receiving informal instruction from Charles ...
Obituary by C H Read in 'Man', XIII 1913, no.56. Janet Owen, ‘Darwin's apprentice: an archaeological biography of John Lubbock’, Barnsley 2013. See AOA Ethdoc567 - copy of ms catalogue of Lord Avebury's museum.
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (born April 30, 1834, London—died May 28, 1913, Kingsgate Castle, Kent, Eng.) was a banker, influential Liberal-Unionist politician, and naturalist who successfully promoted about a dozen measures of some importance in Parliament but was perhaps best known for his books on archaeology and entomology.
1834–1913. Biography. John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, 4th Baronet, (30 April 1834 – 28 May 1913), known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet, from 1865 until 1900, was an English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath.
John Lubbock,1. baron Avebury (ur. 30 kwietnia 1834 w Londynie, zm. 28 maja 1913) – angielski antropolog, archeolog, biolog, polityk i arystokrata. Od 1870 był członkiem parlamentu. Jako archeolog interesował się szczególnie prehistorią Europy, a jako entomolog – społecznym życiem owadów.
27 lis 2013 · When Sir John Lubbock died in May 1913, his estate included a seemingly eclectic assortment of prehistoric stone tools and ethnographic artefacts displayed on the walls of his home at High Elms and hidden away in storage.
