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Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury

Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury

Hutchinson, Horace G.

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Biographies GeneralBritish HistoryNature Writing

ISBN10: 1108076467
ISBN13: 9781108076463
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 30 2014
Pages: 356
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The achievements of the polymath Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913) spanned banking, politics, science and philanthropy. First published in 1914, this two-volume biography by Horace G. Hutchinson (1859-1932) traces Lubbock's extraordinary life and career. Hutchinson, who knew his subject in later years, paints a highly favourable portrait of Lubbock's varied accomplishments. Notably, Lubbock became a partner of his father's bank at twenty-two, a Member of Parliament in 1870, and in 1900 received the title of Baron Avebury. Tutored in natural history by Charles Darwin in his youth, he remained fascinated by evolutionary theory: it influenced his archaeological and anthropological work, including Pre-Historic Times as Illustrated by Ancient Remains (1865) and The Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man (1870), both reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. Volume 2 focuses on Lubbock's later life, with Hutchinson remarking that by seventy Lubbock was still politically active and in good health.

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