Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet

Sir John William Lubbock, 3rd Baronet, FRS (26 March 1803 – 21 June 1865), was an English banker, barrister, mathematician and astronomer.

He largely rebuilt the family home of High Elms,[4] near Downe village in Kent.

[5] When word reached Sir John William Lubbock, he went home and hinted at a great piece of news without immediately disclosing what it was.

[1] Their eldest son John was a scientist and banker, later ennobled as Baron Avebury.

Their youngest child, Edgar, won the FA Cup with Wanderers in 1872 and with Old Etonians in 1879.

John William Lubbock, 3rd Baronet ca 1843
1831 map of the tides around Great Britain showing cotidal lines [ 2 ]