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Baron Avebury

Baron Avebury

Barony in the Peerage of the United Kingdom


Baron Avebury, of Avebury in the County of Wiltshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created 22 January 1900 for the banker, politician and archaeologist Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet.[1] 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 Harold Fox Pitt Lubbock, fourth son of the first Baron, who died in 1971. The title then passed to the third Baron's first cousin, the fourth Baron, the son of Maurice Fox Pitt Lubbock, sixth son of the first Baron. The fourth baron was a Liberal Democrat politician and one of the ninety excepted hereditary peers who remained in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. He was succeeded by his son, the fifth Baron, in 2016.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury.

The Lubbock baronetcy, of Lamas, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 9 April 1806 for John Lubbock,[2] with remainder to his nephew John William, the son of William Lubbock. Lubbock was a successful merchant and banker in London. He was succeeded according to the special remainder by his nephew William, who became 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 Lamas (1806)

Escutcheon of the Lubbock baronets of Lamas, and barons Avebury

Baron Avebury (1900)

The heir apparent is his only son, the Hon. Alexander Lyulph Robert Lubbock (born 1985).[8]

Title succession chart

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Notes

  1. "No. 27156". The London Gazette. 23 January 1900. p. 427.
  2. "No. 15906". The London Gazette. 1 April 1806. p. 422.
  3. Foster, Joseph (1883). The Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire. Westminster: Nichols and Sons. p. 395.
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