This is my great grandfather, Sir John Lubbock and a typical Victorian polymath, seen here with his sixth son. Amongst his less eccentric claims to fame was the legislation he proposed and saw through Parliament, the Bank Holidays Act of 1871. (He was also responsible for the Early Closing Act for shop workers). As I enjoy another Bank Holiday at home in Hackney, I contemplate what The Independent described in a recent article on Bank Holidays (May 27th), as a "collective form of madness". I have, so far, managed to avoid any DIY, but tomorrow, will be helping shift furniture bound for France. As an aside, he is a 'shared' relative (also her great grandfather) with my relation Matha Lane-Fox, she of lastminute.com fame. Wonder what she's doing now.
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