My grandfather Sir John Lubbock MP FRS, author of the Bank Holidays Act 1871.
How doth the Banking Busy Bee
Improve his shining Hours?
By studying on Bank Holidays
Strange insects and Wild Flowers!
(Punch, 1882)
Francis Story The Search for the Self
The search for Self is vain, because it is a search for something that does not exist except as a mythical concept which has had to be taken into the structure of language by common assent. If it is used in any other way than as a fictitious convenience - if it is taken as meaning something real and enduring - it cannot be anything but a stumbling-block to the development of right understanding.
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- At the British Embassy, Paris
- Monday, to Paris, where the Select Committee on In...
- Maurice Lubbock Scholars 50th Anniversary
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- Burma: Cyclone Nargis, May 8, 2008
- Land grabs in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
- Bahá'ís of Iran
- Ping-Pong
- Maurice Lubbock Lecture by Lord Browne
- May 11, Philip, Lindsay, Alan & Victoria
- Another week
- Short week
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- Letter to the Vietnamese government on the Buddhis...
- Lets help Indonesian democrats combat bigotry
- Hits
- Bank Holiday
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- Michael Woodward
- With Richard Shepherd, President of the Gypsy Coun...
- With Qaran leaders and Somaliland friends
- Lubbock Lecture, with Nicky Oppenheimer and Colin ...
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About Me
- Eric Avebury
- Eric Lubbock, Lord Avebury, b September 29, 1928. Upper Canada College & Balliol College Oxford (BA 1949, boxing blue); Welsh Guards (Second Lieut) 1949-51; Rolls Royce (aero-engine division) 1951-6; Production Engineering 1956-60; Charterhouse Group 1960-2. MP Orpington 1962-70; Liberal Chief Whip 1963-70; Chair, Parliamentary Civil Liberties Group 1964-70; Parliamentary Human Rights Group, 1976-1997; Traveller Law Reform Unit; Peru Support Group, 2003-; Cameroon Campaign Group 2003- Speaker's Conference on Electoral Law 1963-5; Select Committee on Science and Technology, 1968-70; Royal Commission on Standards of Conduct in Public Life, 1974-6 President, Data Processing Management Association, 1972-5; Fluoridation Society, 1972-84; Conservation Society, 1973-83; London Bach Society, 1984-98; ACERT (Advisory Council for Education of Romanies & Travellers) 2001-;TAPOL (Indonesian human rights); Kurdish Human Rights Project; Patron, Angulimala (Buddhist Prison Chaplaincy), 1992-; Founder, Parliamentarians for East Timor, 1988; Vice-Chair, Parliamentary Group for Tibet; Member, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (MIMechE); Fellow, British Computer Society (FBCS).
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