Eric Avebury

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Wednesday

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Yesterday I joined in a Question on the latest massacres at three villages near Jos, in Nigeria. There communal killings in Plateau State ha...
Monday, March 29, 2010

549th anniversary of the battle of Towton

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Today I spoke in a debate initiated by Caroline Cox on the Armenian Genocide, mainly on the attempts we have made over the years to engage T...

At the peers' entrance, with the Turkish edition of the Blue Book

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Alison Weir

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Friday evening Lindsay, Lyulph and I went to the National Army Museum for a talk by Alison Weir (see below) on Eleanor of Castile, whose bi...

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From Lord Avebury 020-7274 4617 ericavebury@gmail.com ericavebury.blogspot.com March 25, 2010 Dear Caroline, I att...
Sunday, March 28, 2010

Letter to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh

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25 March 2010 Honourable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Government of the Peoples’ Republic of Bangladesh Prime Minister’s Office...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

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The azalea in our front garden this morning. The flowers don't last long.

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Alison Weir about to sign her book The Captive Queen for me.

Catching up

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Monday Frank Russell came to see me about the African Gifted Trust, on which I have agreed to become a trustee. The paperwork for setting up...
Monday, March 22, 2010

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Speaking at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Conference

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Receiving the Ahmadiyys Muslim Prize for the Advancement of Peace from His Holiness Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad
Sunday, March 21, 2010

House guests

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Alastair and Gill, and two of their friends, were at a party round the corner last night, and Alastair called just after we got home o ask i...

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Sunday

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Yesterday evening, Lindsay and I attended the Ahmadiyya Muslims' Annual Peace Symposium. The keynote speaker, His Holiness Hadhrat Mirza...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

That was the week

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The week began with a visit to the dentist, who managed to glue a tooth that had fallen out, back into the root. She wasn't optimistic a...
Sunday, March 14, 2010

Anniversary

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Today is the 48th anniversary of the Orpington by-election. I had been elected to the Orpington UDC the previous year for my home ward of Do...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

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And here is Maurice Lubbock, the grandson of Maurice Lubbock, at Taupo, New Zealand, March 6.
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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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