The first Lord Avebury, for many years better known as Sir John Lubbock, died on May 28 last, in his 80th year. He was the eldest son of the third Baronet and Harriet, daughter of Captain Hotham, of York. He was educated at Eton, but left at an early age to join his father in the family bank. He married firstly Ellen the eldest child of Peter Hordern, and some years after her death, in 1879, Alice Augusta Laurentia, daughter of the late General A. A. Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, and grand-daughter of the second Baron Stanley of Alderley. In 1865, he succeeded his father as fourth baronet, five years later he became Member of Parliament for Maidstone, and held this seat until 1880, when he was elected representative of the University of London. This seat he held until 1900, the date when he was removed to "another place," as Baron Avebury. Lord Avebury took an active but restricted part in politics. His most prominent efforts were directed to the establishment of Bank Holidays, but he devoted much time and attention to educational questions and social reform. Without having had a University training he was yet peculiarly fitted to be a representative of a University, being a man of wide culture as well as a very competent man of business. For many years he was head of the great banking company, Robarts, Lubbock and Co., and by his tireless activity and ceaseless care for detail, he became a very prominent man in City circles. This attention to detail and his knowledge of procedure made him an admirable President; and, indeed, he seems to have presided over nearly every scientific society and countless mercantile associations. At various dates he was President of the British Association (Jubilee Year), the Entomological Society, the Ethnological Society, the Linnean Society, the Anthropological Institute, the Ray Society, the Statistical Society, the African Society, the Society of Antiquaries, and the Royal Microscopical Society. He was also the first President of the International Institute of Sociology, the President of the International Association of Prehistoric Archreology, the International Association of Zoology, the International Library Association, the London University Extension Society, and the first President of the Institute of Bankers, President of the London Chamber of Commerce, and of the Central Association of Bankers.