John Birkbeck Lubbock, 2nd Baron Avebury (4 October 1858 – 26 March 1929), was a British

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and

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Background

He was the eldest son of

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (30 April 1834 – 28 May 1913), known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet, from 1865 until 1900, was an English banker, Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath. Lubbock worked ...

(1834–1913), and his first wife Ellen Frances Hordern (1841–1879). He succeeded his father as Baron Avebury upon his death in 1913. He was born, and died, at the family home, High Elms, in Farnborough. He was educated at

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, and then at

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, where he graduated as

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and M.A. in the same year of 1885.

Career

Lubbock was a director of the family banking firm, Robbarts, Lubbock and Company, from 1880 until 1914 when it was taken over by Coutts & Co., where he became a director in turn, and of the British

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and a member of the boards of five colonial banks, eight insurance companies and five investment trusts, including the

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, Royal Exchange Assurance Co, Australian Mortgage Land and Finance Co., and Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Co. In 1925 he chaired the Lubbock Committee looking at repayment of War Savings Certificates. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant for the county of

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Sports

In his youth, he was a keen sportsman. At school he played both

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and

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although not in their representative XIs, but he won in 1876 a game of Eton Fives with Ivo Bligh who was later famous as the captain of the England cricket team of "Ashes" fame. At university, he joined the Oxford University A.F.C., playing with them in the

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ties of 1879–80 up to the Cup Final at

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on 10 April 1880, when his team lost 1–0 to Clapham Rovers. He also played against Cambridge University as a football 'Blue' in 1881, and was also a 'Blue' at

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when he lost in the doubles. He played cricket for the M.C.C.,

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and West Kent, and, later in life, scratch

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Sporting honours

;Oxford University *1880 FA Cup Final (runner-up)

Heir

Lord Avebury died unmarried in 1929 at the age of seventy and was succeeded in the Barony by his nephew, John Lubbock.

References

John Birkbeck Lubbock, 2nd Baron Avebury at thepeerage.com
*''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage'', 106th edition (ed. Charles Mosley) (Genealogical Books Ltd, 1999) *''City Bankers, 1890–1914'' by Youssef Cassis (

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and

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, 1994)

External links

Details of cricket career
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People from Farnborough, London