Eric Avebury

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Saturday

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Slow but steady progress is all I can report. I'm slightly puzzled to get a circular letter from the local authority saying they will m...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Tuesday

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Victoria has spent the day here too, and among other things has unearthed useful documents from the archive. Doris has been here, a refugee ...
Saturday, November 21, 2009

Saturday

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Victoria was here all day yesterday very kindly and usefully helping with paperwork, and is coming back again next Tuesday. My leg continue...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Tuesday

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Not a great deal to report, with continued but slow recovery of strength and mobility. Had a visit yesterday from Liz and Donna, occupationa...
Sunday, November 15, 2009

Sunday

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I didn't realise the disadvantage of having to use crutches for the simplest tasks in the office, with mounds of paper accumulating all ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

Saturday evening

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Three weeks since the operation, and slowly gaining strength. This morning I had a shower upstairs, and in the afternoon went downstairs and...

Frank and Ros

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My nephew Francis and Ros, on their honeymoon in Auckland, where they visited Maurice and Diana. She has four children and so does Francis....

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Friday, November 13, 2009

LI Award

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Receiving the Liberal International Freedom award from the LI President, John Alderdice, at the Party conference in Bournemouth, with Ros Sc...

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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Operation

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Images of my left hip, before and after the operation to put it back together. The metal plate is apparently made in only one size, but I...

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Back at home

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My first entry since the Thursday before last, I think, a whole 19 days, spent in King's College Hospital, and then in 'King's a...

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Lindsay writes: Eric returned home yesterday from Lewisham Hospital. He has a good four weeks more of convalescence and we hope that by Ja...
Thursday, November 05, 2009

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This is Eric on Monday this week, with Lindsay, welcoming friends from the Bahrain Freedom Movement. Eric is receiving regular visits from t...
Sunday, November 01, 2009

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Visited Eric in Lewisham hospital this afternoon He has been sitting up for much of the day, reading and listening to music. A4 Marlowe Wa...
Friday, October 30, 2009

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Lindsay writes: This afternoon Eric is moving to Lewisham Hospital, Lewisham High Street, south London, to convalesce for about a week. H...
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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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