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derivation of the name could be suggested, as 

 it seems to be one of the few remnants of some 

 aboriginal or at any rate pre-Celtic language. 



Evidently the Lubbocks have been settled 

 in Norfolk from time immemorial. They are 

 numerous in that county and especially in the 

 parishes round North Walsham and Lamas, to 

 which Lubbocks elsewhere can generally trace 

 their origin. The derivation of the name is 

 practically unknown. It points to emigration 

 from Lubeck, but this is uncertain, nor does it 

 carry us much further. The name has probably 

 come down from some prehistoric language. 

 Its earliest known occurrence in Britain is in 

 the case of John Lubbock of Hanworth in 

 1378-1379. 



The Lubbocks often appear in the records 

 of the Norwich Law Courts, but Mr. Birkbeck 

 in his privately printed book on the family 

 history mentions that he did not find a single 

 Lubbock name in the Assize Rolls. 



The family of Lord Avebury trace their 

 descent from Robert Lobuk of North Walsham, 

 who died in 1493. 



The earliest family portrait is that of John 

 Lubbock, born in 1668. 



Lubbock's business, according to London 

 Bankers by F. G. Hilton Price, was started at 

 11 Mansion House Street, February 5, 1772, by 

 Sir Wm. Lemon, Buller, Furley, Lubbock & Co. 

 In 1835 it was Sir John William Lubbock, 

 Forster & Co. In 1860 it amalgamated with 

 Robarts, Curtis & Co. Lubbock's old house 

 in Mansion House Street was part of Sir Martin 



