John Burland Chubb
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John Burland Chubb (1861-1955) was a great-grandson of the Bridgwater artist John Chubb.[1] He was a member of a talented family and his uncles were John Chubb, (1813-1859), attorney and solicitor, of Cirencester, married Caroline Tudway, in 1838 and died 1859. He was also a talented amateur artist who made a series lithographs of his grandfather's topographical paintings of Bridgwater. Thomas Alford Chubb,(1815-1883), the second son, was secretary, and afterwards treasurer, to the South Eastern Railway Company. The third son, Harry, (1816-1888) was prominent in the management of a number of coal-gas companies and railways in London, and was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He died in 1888.[2][3] The sixth son, Arthur, was a BA of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He died at the house of his brother, John, in 1852 aged 29 [4] Of the other sons, Hammond Chubb (1829-1904) was for 30 years secretary to the Bank of England, (which he had joined in 1847) and died in 1904 aged 75.[5] His cousin, Thomas Lyon Chubb (1858-1936) was trained as mechanical engineer and later worked in the engineering management of railways in the Argentine Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway[6]
He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood between 1869 and 1877 and was Surveyor to the Foundling Hospital.[6] He was elected F.R.I.B.A. in 1904.[7]
On the move of the Hospital out of London he retired and from 1926 he lived at Froyle, East Hampshire. In his retirement he served on the Alton RDC and the Froyle Parish Council.[8]
He was married to Bertha Nield and their children were:[9] Ethel, who married married the Egyptologist Stephen Glanville, John, Philip, Richard and the writer Mary Chubb.
He was buried at Froyle, with his wife, Richard and Mary.[10]
He made contact about his ancestor's art and manuscripts with the Revd Dr H.D. Powell of Bridgwater.[11] After the formation of Blake Museum in 1926 he gave a collection of his ancestor's topographical paintings of Bridgwater and neighbourhood. He collaborated in the publication of John Chubb's correspondence with the politician Charles James Fox.[12]
The family of the John Chubb purchased a Jacobean era Four-poster bed, from Bridgwater Castle, reputed to have been slept in by James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth at the time of the Battle of Sedgemoor.[13] It was sold in 1972 to Agecroft Hall.
References
- ^ "John Chubb 1746-1818". Bridgwater Heritage Group.
- ^ "Harry Chubb's business activities". Retrieved 14 August 2016.
- ^ "Harry Chubb and the North London Railway". Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ "Details of Arthur Chubb". Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ^ The Times (London, England), Saturday, Oct 01, 1904; pg. 13; Issue 37514.
- ^ a b Taylor, E.P. (1923). Merchant Taylors school Register.
- ^ Royal Institute of British Architects (1904). Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects. p. 20.
- ^ "Death Notice". West Sussex Gazette (Thursday 3 February). 1955.
- ^ 1911 Census
- ^ "List of Inscriptions". www.froyle.com. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
- ^ Powell, H. D. (1907). The Ancient Borough of Bridgwater. pp. 297–8.
- ^ Dilkes, T. Bruce (1937). Charles James Fox and the Borough of Brigdwater. Bridgwater; Eastgate Press.
- ^ "The Chubb bed". Bridgwater Heritage Group.
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