Baron Avebury
Baron Avebury , of Avebury in the County of Wilts , is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom .
Award and subordinate titles
The title was created on January 22, 1900 for the banker , politician and archaeologist Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet . He had rendered outstanding services on the one hand to the legislation concerning banking and on the other hand to the research of prehistory . In 1865 he had inherited the title of 4th Baronet , of Lammas in the County of Norfolk, from his father, which was given to his ancestor John Lubbock , who was a successful banker in London, on April 9, 1806 in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom was. The award of the baronetcy was provided with the express note that in the absence of male descendants, the title could also fall to a nephew of the first baronet and his descendants, which then happened. The respective Baron Avebury leads the Baronetcy as a subordinate title.
List of Lubbock Baronets and Barons Avebury
Lubbock Baronets, of Lammas (1806)
- Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baronet (1744-1816)
- Sir John Lubbock, 2nd Baronet (1773-1840)
- Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet (1803-1865)
- Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet (1834–1913) ( elevated to Baron Avebury in 1900 )
Barons Avebury (1900)
- John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834-1913)
- John Lubbock, 2nd Baron Avebury (1858–1929)
- John Lubbock, 3rd Baron Avebury (1915–1971)
- Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury (1928-2016)
- Lyulph Lubbock, 5th Baron Avebury (born 1954)
The heir ( Heir Apparent ) is the only son of the current baron Alexander Lubbock (* 1981).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The London Gazette : No. 27156, p. 427 , January 23, 1900