English banker and politician (1834–1913) The Right HonourableThe Lord AveburyBt PC DL FRS FRAIWoodburytype print ofLord Avebury in middle ageMember of the House of LordsLord TemporalIn office22 January 1900 – 28 May 1913Preceded byNone (peerage created)Succeeded byJohn LubbockChairman of the London County CouncilIn office1890–1892Preceded byThe Earl of RoseberySucceeded byThe Earl of RoseberyMember of Parliamentfor London UniversityIn office1880–1900Preceded byRobert LoweSucceeded byMichael FosterMember of Parliamentfor MaidstoneIn office1870–1880Preceded byWilliam LeeSucceeded byAlexander Henry Ross Personal detailsBorn30 April 1834London, EnglandDied28 May 1913(1913-05-28) (aged 79)Broadstairs, Kent, EnglandPolitical partyLiberal (until 1886)Liberal Unionist (since 1886)Other politicalaffiliationsProgressive Party (County of London, 1889–1890)Known forBank holidays and the Ancient Monuments Protection Act 1882 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. Lubbock worked in his family company as a banker but made significant contributions in archaeology, ethnography, and several branches of biology. He coined the terms "Paleolithic" and "Neolithic" to denote the Old and New Stone Ages, respectively. He helped establish archaeology as a scientific discipline, and was influential in debates concerning evolutionary theory.[1] He introduced the first law for the protection of the UK's archaeological and architectural heritage. He was also a founding member of the X Club. Early life[edit] John Lubbock was born in 1834, the son of Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet, a London banker, and was brought up in the family home of High Elms Estate, near Downe in Kent. The family had two homes, one at 29 Eaton Place, Belgrave Square where John was born, and another in Mitcham Grove. Lubbock senior had studied mathematics at Cambridge University and had written on probability, and on astronomy. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he was keenly involved in the scientific debates of the time, as well as serving as the Vice Chancellor of London University. During 1842, his father brought home a "great piece of news": the young Lubbock said later that he initially thought that the news might be of a new pony, and was disappointed to learn it was only that Charles Darwin was moving to Down House in the village.[2] The youth was soon a frequent visitor to Down House, and became the closest of Darwin's younger friends.[3] Their relationship stimulated young Lubbock's passion for science and evolutionary theory.[1] John's mother, Harriet, was deeply religious. In 1845, Lubbock began studies at Eton College. After finishing school, he was employed by his father's bank, Lubbock & Co. (which later amalgamated with Coutts & Co.), of which he became a partner at the age of 22. Around 1852, he assisted Darwin's research by examining and illustrating barnacles. In 1865, he succeeded to the baronetcy.[4] Business and politics[edit] In the early 1870s, Lubbock became increasingly interested in politics. In 1870, and again in 1874, he was elected as a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidstone. He lost the seat at the election of 1880, but was at once elected member for London University, of which he had been vice-chancellor since 1872.[4] As an MP, Lubbock had a distinguished political career, with four main political agendas: promotion of the study of science in primary and secondary schools; the national debt, free trade, and related economic issues; protection of ancient monuments; securing of additional holidays and shorter working hours for the working classes.[1] He was successful with numerous enactments in Parliament, including the Bank Holidays Act 1871 and the Ancient Monuments Act 1882, along with another 28 acts of Parliament. When the Liberals split in 1886 on the issue of Irish Home Rule, Lubbock joined the breakaway Liberal Unionist Party in opposition to Irish home rule. A prominent supporter of the Statistical Society, he took an active part in criticizing the encroachment of municipal trading and the increase of the municipal debt.[4] Lubbock's thoughts about the nature and value of politics were deeply influenced by his scientific research, particularly his writings on early human society. He believed that the cognitive foundations of morality could be shaped through political economy, particularly through a national education system that implemented subjects mandated by the state. He held that the minds of children could be shaped in the direction of democracy, liberalism and morality through learning how to read and write. To this goal he was a strong supporter of the Elementary Education Act 1870 and he defended the introduction of the national curriculum during the 1870s and 1880s.[5] In 1879, Lubbock was elected the first president of the Institute of Bankers. In 1881, he was president of the British Association, and from 1881 to 1886, president of the Linnean Society of London.[4] In March 1883, he founded the Bank Clerks Orphanage, which in 1986 became the Bankers' Benevolent Fund – a charity for bank employees, past and present, and their dependants. In January 1884, he founded the Proportional Representation Society, later to become the Electoral Reform Society. Kingsgate Castle in Kent was rebuilt by Lord Avebury Caricature from Punch, 1882 In recognition of his contributions to the sciences, Lubbock received honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford, Cambridge (where he was Rede lecturer in 1886), Edinburgh, Dublin and Würzburg; and was appointed a trustee of the British Museum in 1878. He received the German Order Pour le Mérite for Science and Arts in August 1902.[6] From 1888 to 1892, he was president of the London Chamber of Commerce, and he was later President of the Association of Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom. In local politics, he was from 1889 to 1890 vice-chairman and from 1890 to 1892 chairman of the London County Council.[4] In February 1890 he was appointed a privy councillor;[7] and was chairman of the committee of design for the new coinage in 1891. On 22 January 1900, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Avebury, of Avebury, in the county of Wiltshire,[8] his title commemorating the largest Stone Age site in Britain, which he had helped to preserve. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1900 to 1902.[9] In November 1905, together with Lord Courtney of Penwith, he founded the Anglo-German Friendship Committee which sought to counteract the influence of the British war party, whose anti-German propaganda was then at its zenith, and smooth the way towards more amicable relations between England and Germany. The quotation, "We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth", is often attributed to Lubbock. This variation appears in his book The Pleasures of Life. Archaeology and biological science[edit] Lubbock portrayed in Strand Magazine, 1891 In addition to his work at his father's bank, Lubbock took a keen interest in archaeology and evolutionary theory. In 1855, he and Charles Kingsley discovered the skull of a musk ox in a gravel pit, a discovery that was commended by Darwin.[10] A collection of Iron Age antiquities Lubbock and Sir John Evans excavated at the site of Hallstatt in Austria is now in the British Museum's collection.[11][12] He spoke in support of the evolutionist Thomas Henry Huxley at the famous 1860 Oxford evolution debate. During the 1860s, he published many articles in which he used archaeological evidence to support Darwin's theory.[1] In 1864, he became one of the founding members (along with Thomas Henry Huxley and others) of the elite X Club, a dining club composed of nine gentlemen to promote the theories of natural selection and academic liberalism. He held a number of influential academic positions, including President of the Ethnological Society from 1864 to 1865, vice-president of Linnean Society in 1865, and President of the International Congress of Prehistoric Archaeology in 1868. In 1865 he published Pre-Historic Times, which became a standard archaeology textbook for the remainder of the century, with the seventh and final edition published in 1913.[1] His second book, On the Origin of Civilization, was published in 1870. He held the position of President of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland from 1871 to 1872,[13] as well as the position of Vice President of the Royal Society in 1871. During this period he worked with John Evans, the other key figure in the establishment of the discipline of archaeology.[1] He invented the terms "Palaeolithic" and "Neolithic" to denote the Old and New Stone Ages, respectively.[14] He also introduced a Darwinian-type theory of human nature and development. "What was new was Lubbock's ... insistence that, as a result of natural selection, human groups had become different from each other, not only culturally, but also in their biological capacities to utilize culture."[15] Lubbock complained in the preface to Pre-Historic Times about Charles Lyell: Pages from a book of obituary cuttings following the death of Sir John Lubbock in 1913"Note.—In his celebrated work on the Antiquity of Man, he coined the term Neolithic in 1865. Sir Charles Lyell has made much use of my earlier articles in the Natural History Review, frequently, indeed, extracting whole sentences verbatim, or nearly so. But as he has in these cases omitted to mention the source from which his quotations were derived, my readers might naturally think that I had taken very unjustifiable liberties with the work of the eminent geologist. A reference to the respective dates will, however, protect me from any such inference. The statement made by Sir Charles Lyell, in a note to page 11 of his work, that my article on the Danish Shell-mounds was published after his sheets were written, is an inadvertence, regretted, I have reason to believe, as much by its author as it is by me."[16] In the 1870s, he bought land at Avebury to prevent part of the ancient stone circle from being built on.[17] This, and other threats to the nation's heritage, persuaded him that some legal protection was needed. In 1874, he introduced a parliamentary bill that would identify a list of ancient sites that deserved legal protection. After several later attempts and against some opposition, it was not until 1882 that a much watered down version, The Ancient Monuments Act, came into being. Though restricted to 68 largely prehistoric monuments, it was the forerunner of all later laws governing the UK's archaeological and architectural heritage.[18] Lubbock was also an amateur biologist of some distinction, writing books on hymenoptera (Ants, Bees and Wasps: a record of observations on the habits of the social hymenoptera. Kegan Paul, London; New York: Appleton, 1884), on insect sense organs and development, on the intelligence of animals, the first monograph on UK Springtails (Collembola) (Monograph on the Collembola and Thysanura, Ray Society, London), and on other natural history topics. He discovered that ants were sensitive to light in the near ultraviolet range of the electromagnetic spectrum.[19][20] In 1874 he became the first President of the British Beekeepers Association.[21] A verse in Punch in 1882 described his activities: Lord Avebury speaking during the presentation of the first replica of Diplodocus carnegii to the trustees of the British Museum of Natural History, 12 May 1905 How doth the Banking Busy Bee, Improve his shining Hours? By studying on Bank Holidays, Strange insects and Wild Flowers! He corresponded extensively with Charles Darwin, who lived nearby at Down House.[22] Lubbock stayed in Downe except for a brief period from 1861 to 1865, when he lived in Chislehurst. Both men were active advocates of English spelling reform, and members of the Spelling Reform Association, precursor to the Simplified Spelling Society. Darwin rented land, originally from Lubbock's father, in Sandwalk wood where he performed his daily exercise, and in 1874 agreed with Lubbock to exchange the land for a piece of pasture in Darwin's property.[23] When Darwin died in 1882, Lubbock suggested the honour of burial in Westminster Abbey, organising a letter to the dean to arrange this, and was one of the pallbearers.[3] In May 1884, an article appeared in Scientific American describing experiments by Lubbock in the field of human-animal communication.[24] In 1884, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society[25] and in 1893, a member of the American Antiquarian Society.[26] He received the 1903 Prestwich Medal from the Geological Society of London.[27] Family[edit] Battersea Library plaque Lubbock was one of eight brothers and three sisters;[citation needed] three brothers, Alfred,[28] Nevile[29] and Edgar,[30] played first-class cricket for Kent. Edgar and Alfred also played football and played together for Old Etonians in the 1875 FA Cup Final. His nephew, Percy Lubbock, was a prominent man of letters and another nephew was the writer and historian Basil Lubbock. Lubbock married Ellen Frances Horden in April 1856. Five years after her death, on 17 May 1884 he married Alice Lane Fox, the daughter of Augustus Pitt Rivers .[31] He rebuilt Kingsgate Castle, near Broadstairs in Kent, as his family home, where he died in 1913. He was succeeded by his eldest son, John. He was buried in St Giles the Abbott Church, in Farnborough, London. Three years later, his remains were disinterred and placed in a family burial ground a few hundred yards from the church, along with the original stone Celtic cross marking his grave. In 1986, Bromley Council, unknown to the Lubbock family, moved the cross back to the main church graveyard.[32] References[edit] ^ a b c d e f Mithen, Steven (2006). After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01570-8. ^ Howarth & Howarth 1933, pp. 72–73 ^ a b Freeman 1978, p. 192 ^ a b c d e  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Avebury, John Lubbock, 1st Baron". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 51–52. ^ Eddy, Matthew Daniel (2017). "The politics of cognition: liberalism and the evolutionary origins of Victorian education" (PDF). British Journal for the History of Science. 50 (4): 677–699. doi:10.1017/S0007087417000863. PMID 29019300. S2CID 206212679. ^ "Court Circular". The Times. No. 36850. London. 19 August 1902. p. 8. ^ London Gazette issue 26022 11 February 1890 Archived 29 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine ^ "No. 27156". The London Gazette. 23 January 1900. p. 427. ^ "Royal Statistical Society Presidents". Royal Statistical Society. 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The Times. No. 36974. London. 10 January 1903. p. 6. ^ "Alfred Lubbock". Cricket Archive. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2011. ^ "Nevile Lubbock". Cricket Archive. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2011. ^ "Edgar Lubbock". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 10 February 2011. ^ "The marriage of Sir John Lubbock ...". The Cornishman. No. 304. 15 May 1884. p. 6. ^ "LUBBOCK FAMILY AND FARNBOROUGH". Farnborough Village History. Retrieved 21 May 2022. Freeman, R.B. (1978). Charles Darwin: A companion. Folkestone: William Dawson & Sons Ltd. Howarth, O. J. R.; Howarth, E. K. (1933), A history of Darwin's parish: Downe, Kent. With a foreword by Sir Arthur Keith, Southampton: Russell & Co. Data related to John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury at Wikispecies Books[edit] The following is a list of publications by Sir John Lubbock, arranged in chronological order by the dates of the first editions of each work. Lubbock J. (1865) Pre-Historic Times, As Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages , Williams & Norgate, London Lubbock J. (1870) The Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man , Longmans, Green & Co., London Lubbock J. (1871) Monograph on the Collembola and Thysanura , Ray Society, London Lubbock J. (1872) the Origin and the Metamorphoses of Insects On the Origin and the Metamorphoses of Insects , Macmillan & Co., London Lubbock J. (1873) On British Wild Flowers Considered in relation to Insects , Macmillan & Co., London Lubbock J. (1874) Scientific Lectures , Macmillan & Co., London Lubbock J. (1877) "Ant Intelligence", Scientific American article, 31 March 1877, p. 198-199 Lubbock J. (1879) Addresses, Political and Educational , Macmillan & Co., London Lubbock J. (1881) Fifty Years of Science, Being the Address Delivered at York to the British Association, August 1881 , Macmillan & Co., London Lubbock J. (1882) Ants, Bees and Wasps: A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social Hymenoptera , Keegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co. Ltd., London: 442 pp. Lubbock J. (1882) Chapters in Popular Natural History , National Society, London Lubbock J. (1882) Flowers, Fruits and Leaves , Macmillan & Co., London Lubbock J. (1883) On the Senses, Instincts and Intelligence of Animals, With Special Reference to Insects , Keegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co. Ltd., London: 512 pp. Lubbock J. (1885) Representation, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Berne Lubbock J. (1887–89) The pleasures of life , (2 volumes) Macmillan & Co., London Lubbock J. (1889) La Vie des Plantes, Hachette Livre Lubbock J. (1890) Flowers and Insects, Macmillan & Co., London (Included in later compilations) Lubbock J. (1892) The Beauties of Nature , Macmillan & Co., London Lubbock J. (1894) The Use of Life , Macmillan & Co., London Lubbock J. (1896) The Duty of Happiness, H. Altemus, Lubbock J. (1896) The Scenery of Switzerland , Macmillan & Co., London Lubbock J. (1898) On Buds and Stipules, Keegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co. Ltd., London: 239 pp. Lubbock J. (1902) The Scenery of England, Macmillan & Co., London Lubbock J. (1902) A Short History of Coins and Currency, John Murray Lubbock J. (1904) Free Trade, Macmillan & Co., London Lubbock J. (1905) Notes on The Life History of British Flowering Plants, Macmillan & Co., London Lubbock J. (1905) Happiness and Thrift, Macmillan & Co., London Lubbock J. (1906) On Municipal and National Trading, Macmillan & Co., London Lubbock J. (1909) On Peace and Happiness, Macmillan & Co., London Lubbock J. (1911) Marriage, Totemism and Religion, Longmans, Green & Co., London Further reading[edit] Grant Duff, Ursula (1924). The life-work of Lord Avebury. London: Watts & Co. comprising essays by sir Bernard Mallet, sir Arthur Keith [and others], edited by his daughter. Hutchinson, H. G. (1914) Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury, London. Volume 1. 2 Parsons, F. D. (2009) 'Thomas Hare and Political Representation in Victorian Britain' (Palgrave Macmillan) Patton, M. (2007) Science, politics & business in the work of Sir John Lubbock – a man of universal mind, Ashgate, London. Pearn, Alison (2014) "The teacher taught? What Charles Darwin owed to John Lubbock". Notes Rec R Soc Lond. Mar 20; 68(1): 7–19. Sir John Lubbock in The Columbia Encyclopedia, (Sixth Edition, 2001) Trigger, B. G. (1989) A history of archaeological thought, (revised 2006) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Kains-Jackson, C. P. (1880) " Our Ancient Monuments and the Land Around them, with a preface by Sir John Lubbock", Elliot Stock, London. External links[edit] Wikiquote has quotations related to John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Wikimedia Commons has media related to John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Works by or about John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury at Wikisource Works by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury at Project Gutenberg Portraits of John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury at the National Portrait Gallery, London Works by or about John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury at Internet Archive Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Lubbock "John Lubbock— forgotten polymath", by Phillip Steadman, New Scientist, 10 January 1980, p. 84 Obituary in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London St Lubbock's Days A short biography of John Lubbock by Rupert Baker, Library Manager at the Royal Society, 27 April 2021 John Lubbock at Minnesota State University eMuseum, archived in 2006 "History of High Elms Golf Club and Course". Archived from the original on 17 April 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2009. 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