 The son of John Lubbock (1669 - 1731), a clothier of North Walsham, Norfolk, and of his wife Elizabeth Webster, Lubbock was educated at Gresham's School, Holt from 1712 and later at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.Lubbock graduated as a BA in 1721 and as an MA in 1724, and as a Bachelor of Divinity in 1732.He remained at Caius as a tutor in Classics and Divinity and was a Fellow of the college between 1724 and 1733.