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father's bank. Succeeded to Baronetcy 1865. Published " Prehistoric 

 Times," 1869, which at once attracted wide attention. In 1874 he 

 published "Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects," and in 1882 "Ants, 

 Bees, and Wasps." This last was the work by which the public knew 

 him best, and Punch, August 19th, 1882, gave a portrait of him as " The 

 Banking Busy Bee." Liberal M.P. for Maidstone, 1870—80, and 

 London University, 1880—86 (and as Liberal Unionist) 1886—1900. 

 Vice-Chancellor of London University 1872—80. " He was an ideal 

 university member." His untiring work in Parliament on behalf of 

 shop assistants will be gratefully remembered. The Bank Holiday Act 

 of 1871, Shop Hours Regulation Act of 1886, and Shop Hours Act of 

 1904 were chiefly due to his persistent efforts. He sat on several 

 Koyal and on innumerable Departmental Committees. As the head of 

 Robarts, Lubbock, & Co., he held an important position in the city, 

 and was the first President of the Institute of Bankers. He was 

 President of the London Chamber of Commerce, 1888 to 1893, Chair- 

 man of the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders, Vice- Chairman of the 

 London County Council 1889-90, and Chairman 1890 — 92. He was a 

 member of the Legion of Honour, and held the Prussian Order Pour 

 le Merite. Raised to the peerage in 1900 he took his title from the 

 land at Avebury which he had bought to save the circle from the 

 speculative builder. He had been President of very many scientific 

 and learned societies. He was a Life Member and Vice-President of our 

 own Wiltshire [Society. He married, first, 1856, Ellen, daughter of Rev. 

 Peter Hordern, and secondly 1884, Alice Augusta Laurentia, daughter 

 of Lieut.-General A. A. Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, who survives him. His 

 eldest son by the first marriage, Hon. John Birkbeck Lubbock, succeeds 

 to the title. " Few Englishmen have lived a fuller or busier life than Lord 

 Avebury. The range of the operation of his energies was so wide and 

 multifarious and so eminently conducive to the public weal that he 

 won, and deserved, a higher place in the estimation of his fellow 

 citizens than many men of greater powers of mind. In industry and 

 capacity for giving attention to a variety of interests simultaneously 

 he has not been often equalled. . . . He was a practised entomo- 

 logical observer. . . . An anthropologist, an ethnologist and a 

 botanist. ... A great student of geology." Times, May 29th, in 

 a long obituary article. Portraits in Sphere, May 31st ; Queen, June 

 7th, 1913. 



Rev. Thomas Scudamore Cunningham, died May 30th, 



1913, aged 59, Buried at Chirton. S. of Thomas John Mackay 

 Cunningham, capt. in Madras Native Infantry. Born at Cheltenham, 

 June 13th, 1854. Educated at Clapham Grammar School and St. Bees 

 Theological Coll., 1875. Deacon 1877, priest 1878 (Oxford). Curate 

 of Newton Blossomville 1877-80; Burwell, Cambs., 1880-82; 

 Felpham, Sussex, 1882; Pakenham, Suffolk, 1883—84; Perpetual 

 Curate of Scilly Isles, 1885—88 ; Vicar of St. Feock, Corn., 1888—91 ; 

 Chaplain at Ghent, 1891—92; Vicar of Christ Church, Whitehaven, 



