About Nevile Lubbock
Lived 1839 – 1914 (aged 75). Nevile Lubbock was a British cricketer.
Sir Nevile Lubbock (31 March 1839 – 12 September 1914) was President of the West India Committee and an English amateur cricketer.
Lubbock was born on 31 March 1839 in Pimlico, the third son of Sir John Lubbock and his wife Lady Harriet. He was educated at Eton College from the age of nine, leaving Eton when he was 15 to join his father's business in the City of London. In 1862 he joined the firm of Cavan Brothers and Company who were West India merchants, it started a lifetime of connection to the West Indies. He was a pioneer in the introduction of sugar cane-farming in Trinidad and in 1887 he was invited by the British Government to attend the first Colonial Conference. and was described in his Wisden obituary as "a good steady batsman". Most of his brothers also played cricket, often for Gentlemen of West Kent, with two, Edgar and Alfred, also playing for Kent. His oldest brother, John, became the first Baron Avebury in 1900.
Lubbock was married twice, first to Charlotte Wood with whom he had seven sons and three daughters. After her death in 1878 he married Constance Herschel in 1880, having another son and six daughters. He died suddenly, aged 75, on 12 September 1914 at his home Oakley Park at Bromley Common in Kent.
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British cricketer (1839-1914)
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