Eric Avebury

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

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At Oxford University's Department of Engineering Science, May 24, for the 38th Maurice Lubbock Memorial Lecture on LONDON 2012 - Engi...
Monday, May 28, 2012

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Committee Room 14: Medical Justice meeting Photographs courtesy of Edward Goldwyn

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At the Medical Justice meeting to launch The Second Torture
Sunday, May 27, 2012

The week

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Monday received a large delegation of Bangladesh National Party UK members who presented a petition. I forwarded it to the Foreign Secretar...

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Lindsay's birthday dinner May 26

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The Maurice Lubbock Trustees: Dr M Jones, Sir John Lucas-Tooth, the Hon Lyulph Lubbock Dr Alastair Howatson, Lord Avebury

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Maurice Lubbock Memorial Fund Trustees meeting May 25

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In the Garden

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Monday, May 21, 2012

More medical

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Dr L confirms that my disorder is primary myelofibrosis, see http://1.usa.gov/LapWPe The longer description is "Myeloproliferative di...
Sunday, May 13, 2012

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Lindsay at the exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of her mother Pamela Hansford Johnson, in the Clapham Library, which she org...
Sunday, May 06, 2012

The local elections

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  We have lost many good councillors, and clearly the electors are handing out an equal share of the blame to Liberal Democrat candidate...
Monday, April 30, 2012

Medical etc

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After a week of diarrhoea, which came to an end yesterday, I was asked to visit haematology outpatients this morning for a checkup.  A blood...

Disaster

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Torrential rain and gales led to collapse of massive bush and part of the boundary wall. We need to establish whether the wall is owned b...

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With Frances & Ros, Lyulph & Sue, at Eric's memorial, High Elms April 22
Sunday, April 29, 2012

Rest of the week

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Tuesday: meeting chaired by Martin Horwood MP to launch Christian Aid's report The Scandal of Inequality in Latin America and the Caribb...
Friday, April 27, 2012

Back to work

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The House met again this week after a 3.week break. Monday the main business was the Commons amendments to the Legal Aid Sentencing and Puni...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

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Daniel Thornton speaks. On the right of the picture is Labour peer Paul Boateng, who is travelling to Ghana on behalf of the All-Party Gro...

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A good audience
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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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