Sir John Lubbock - Eaton Place, London, UK
N 51° 29.857 W 000° 09.122
30U E 697677 N 5709010
This blue plaque to Sir John Lubbock is fixed to a property in the affluent Eaton Place.
Waymark Code: WMEGFQ
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/27/2012
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The blue plaque, that is a bit rough around the
edges, reads:
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LCC
Sir
John
Lubbock
Baron Avebury
(1834 - 1913)
born here
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The Answers.com website (visit
link) tells us:
"British banker, politician, and antiquary,
later Lord Avebury, best known to archaeologists as the author of Prehistoric
Times (1865, London). Lubbock became interested in archaeology at an early age
and as a close friend of Charles Darwin was an early advocate of evolutionary
thinking in his approaches to archaeological material. He published Prehistoric
Times at the age of 35, introducing two new archaeological terms—Palaeolithic
and Neolithic—as subdivisions of the Stone Age. The book went through seven
editions, the last in 1913, and was enormously popular. It drew on ethnography
to help interpret the archaeological material, and it also touched on one of
Lubbock's other interests, the preservation of archaeological remains. Lubbock
was the architect of the first ancient monuments legislation in Britain, finally
succeeding in getting the Ancient Monuments Protection Act onto the statute book
in 1882 after nearly a decade of negotiations. Outside of his archaeological
life, Lubbock was a successful banker and a hard-working Liberal MP. Amongst his
other successes in parliament was the introduction of a bill to establish bank
holidays."