He was an early (1911) member of the Society for Nautical Research, served on its council (1921–1924) and contributed to its journal, The Mariner's Mirror.
Alfred senior worked as an underwriter for Lloyd's of London and was a director in Robarts, Lubbock & Co, a private bank founded in 1772.
Lubbock senior continued to play cricket as an adult and was considered one of the best batsmen in England).
He sailed to Alaska in the steamer City of Seattle and hiked over the Chilkoot Trail to the Yukon gold fields.
He abandoned the idea and instead went to San Francisco where he briefly joined the California Cricket Club.
[5] On 12 July 1899, he signed on to serve as a crewman of the British-registered four-masted barque Ross-shire which had just arrived from Japan.
On 13 March 1903, he arrived New York aboard the White Star liner Germanic on route to Canada.
While aboard he fell from the rigging and injured his thigh and broke his ankle, which left him with a slight life-long limp.
He was a member of the Territorial Force by November 1914 when he and his wife boarded a steamship at Tilbury for India.
They arrived at Bombay in December and by April 1915 he was attending the army signal school at Poona.
Lubbock had a long and active friendship with Captain Wilfred Dowman, the man who purchased the Cutty Sark back from the Portuguese; their friendship sprang from examining the work log of the Cutty Sark.
Basil Lubbock died on 3 September 1944 at Monks Orchard, East Blatchington, Sussex, aged 67.