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LORD AVEBURY, whose death on May 28 we recorded last week with regret, was a many-sided man, one of those gifted men who, without making any very profound advance in science, yet succeeded in making science acceptable and even welcome to the ordinary man. He was a banker by profession, and an antiquary, a politician, a man of science and of letters by inclination. He was born in London on April 30, 1834, the eldest son of Sir John William Lubbock, third baronet. His school was Eton, which, however, he left at a schoolboy age to enter his father's banking business. Throughout his life Lord Avebury, or, as he was for many years better known, Sir John Lubbock—he succeeded his father in 1865—showed a great capacity for steady, plodding work, not only in the City, but in politics, municipal administration, and in scientific and archæological research, and his activities were of the widest.
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Lord Avebury, F.R.S. . Nature 91, 350–351 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091350a0
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