4 LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK on.* 



The family appears to have been distributed, 

 for some seven hundred and more years, in 

 the parishes above named and others between 

 Norwich and Cromer, and although the small 

 East Anglian property of Lamas, in East Anglia, 

 is still a family possession, the grandfather of 

 the first Lord Avebury found the inconvenience, 

 for business purposes, of a residence so far from 

 the metropolis, and took up his abode in or 

 near London. He lived for a while at High 

 Elms, the family's present place in Kent, but, 

 finding that again scarcely convenient enough 

 for his business engagements, removed to Mitcham, 

 where he rented a house on the river Wandle. 

 From Mitcham he used to drive up to the City 

 in a four-in-hand, and Lord Avebury used to 

 relate that he always sat in the parlour in top- 

 boots. His son, who had married a Miss Hotham, 

 took a house in Eaton Place — No. 29 — where 

 was born on April 30, 1834, John Lubbock, 

 the future first Lord Aveburv. 



