Baron Avebury, of Avebury

Avebury

Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles which is located around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, south west England. Unique amongst megalithic monuments, Avebury contains the largest stone circle in Europe, and is one of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain...

 in the County of Wiltshire

Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...

, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

. It was created in 1900 for the banker, politician and archaeologist Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC , FRS , known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was a polymath and Liberal Member of Parliament....

. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baron. On his death the titles passed to his nephew, the third Baron. He was the son of Hon. Harold Fox Pitt Lubbock, fourth son of the first Baron. the titles are held by his first cousin, the fourth Baron, who succeeded in 1971. He is the son of Hon. Maurice Fox Pitt Lubbock, sixth son of the first Baron. Lord Avebury is a Liberal Democrat

Liberal Democrats

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 politician and one of the ninety elected hereditary peer

Hereditary peer

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s that remain in the House of Lords

House of Lords

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 after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999

House of Lords Act 1999

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.

The Lubbock Baronetcy, of Lammas, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 9 April 1806 for John Lubbock

Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baronet

Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baronet was an eminent English banker. Lubbock was also a merchant and Member of Parliament. He was the first son of a Cambridge don, the Reverend William Lubbock of Lammas, Norfolk, by Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Cooper of North Walsham, Norfolk...

, with remainder to his nephew John William, the son of William Lubbock. Lubbock was a successful merchant and banker in London

London

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. He was succeeded according to the special remainder by his nephew William, the second Baronet. He was also a banker. His grandson, the aforementioned fourth Baronet, was elevated to the peerage as Baron Avebury in 1900.

Lubbock Baronets, of Lammas (1806)

• Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baronet
  Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baronet
  Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baronet was an eminent English banker. Lubbock was also a merchant and Member of Parliament. He was the first son of a Cambridge don, the Reverend William Lubbock of Lammas, Norfolk, by Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Cooper of North Walsham, Norfolk...
  
   (1744–1816)
• Sir John Lubbock, 2nd Baronet
  Sir John Lubbock, 2nd Baronet
  Sir John William Lubbock, 2nd Baronet FRS was an English banker.He chaired the family bank Lubbock & Company. He was the nephew of Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baronet, succeeding him by special remainder, and the grandson of the Reverend William Lubbock...
  
   (1773–1840)
• Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet
  Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet
  Sir John William Lubbock, 3rd Baronet was an English banker, barrister, mathematician and astronomer.He was born in Westminster, the son of Sir John William Lubbock, of the Lubbock & Co bank. He was educated at Eton and then Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1825...
  
   (1803–1865)
• Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet
  John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
  John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC , FRS , known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was a polymath and Liberal Member of Parliament....
  
   (1834–1913) (created Baron Avebury in 1900)

Barons Avebury (1900)

• John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
  John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
  John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC , FRS , known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was a polymath and Liberal Member of Parliament....
  
   (1834–1913)
• John Lubbock, 2nd Baron Avebury
  John Lubbock, 2nd Baron Avebury
  John Birkbeck Lubbock, 2nd Baron Avebury, DL was an English aristocrat and banker.-Background:He was the eldest son of John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury and his first wife Ellen Frances Hordern . He succeeded his father as Baron Avebury upon his death in 1913.-Career:Lubbock was a partner in the...
  
   (1858–1929)
• John Lubbock, 3rd Baron Avebury
  John Lubbock, 3rd Baron Avebury
  John Lubbock, 3rd Baron Avebury was an English peer.He was the son of the Honourable Harold Fox Pitt Lubbock and a grandson of John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. His sister Moyra was married to the broadcaster Dorian Williams...
  
   (1915–1971)
• Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
  Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
  Eric Reginald Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury, PC is an English politician. A Liberal Member of Parliament from 1962 to 1970, he succeeded as Baron Avebury in 1971...
  
   (b. 1928)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

An heir apparent or heiress apparent is a person who is first in line of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting, except by a change in the rules of succession....

is the present holder's son the Hon. Lyulph Ambrose Jonathan Lubbock (b. 1954)

The heir apparent's heir apparent is his only son Alexander Lyulph Robert Lubbock (b. 1985)