In the history of enterprise, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury as English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath (1834-1913).
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury was born at London in 1834. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He was educated at Eton College.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
He worked as anthropologist, politician and archaeologist.
His recorded affiliations include University of London.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
Recognition followed: Huxley Memorial Medal (1900), Prestwich Medal (1903) and Livingstone Medal (1908).
That the business was built from United Kingdom shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury died in 1913, aged 79. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Huxley Memorial Medal — 1900
- Prestwich Medal — 1903
- Livingstone Medal — 1908
- Affiliated with University of London
- Educated at Eton College
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