Charles Chubb (Australian Judge), Chubb
Charles Chubb may refer to: *Charles Chubb (ornithologist) (1851–1924), British ornithologist *Charles Chubb (businessman) (1772–1845), British locksmith and businessman, the founder of Chubb Locks * Charles Archibald Chubb, 2nd Baron Hayter (1871–1967), great grandson of Charles Chubb, who founded Chubb and Sons Lock and Safe Co; director and managing director of family firm *Charles E. Chubb Charles Edward Chubb (17 May 1845 – 27 February 1930) was a judge in the Supreme Court of Queensland, Australia. He was also a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and an Attorney-General of Queensland. Early life Chubb was born on ...

Charles Chubb (ornithologist)
Charles Chubb (31 December 1851 – 25 June 1924) was a British ornithologist. Family Chubb was born in Steeple Langford near Salisbury, England. He married twice, to Ada Albion and Alice Mabel Baker. He had seven children, among them Ernest Charles Chubb who also became an ornithologist and was a museum curator in Durban. In 1924, Chubb was knocked down by a car outside the Natural History Museum, London, and died two weeks later in that city. Career Chubb began working at the British Museum at the age of 26. Among the birds he described are Cobb's wren and the tinamou genus ''Crypturellus ''Crypturellus'' is a genus of tinamous containing mostly forest species. However, there are the odd few that are grassland or steppe tinamous. The genus contains 21 species. Taxonomy The genus ''Crypturellus'' was introduced in 1914 by the Brit ...''. Works * The Birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell' (2 volumes, 1916 and 1921) * The ...
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Charles Chubb (businessman)
Charles Chubb (1779 – 1846) was an English lock and safe manufacturer. Life Born in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, he trained as a blacksmith who started a hardware business at Winchester then moved to Portsea, Portsmouth. Here he improved on the "detector" lock, originally patented in 1818 by his brother, Jeremiah Chubb. He soon moved to London and then to Wolverhampton, where he employed 200 workers. In 1835, he patented a process intended to render safes burglar-proof and fireproof, and subsequently established a large safe-factory in London. He died on 16 May 1846, and was succeeded in the business by his son, John Chubb (1816–1872), who patented various improvements in the products of the firm and largely increased its output. The factories were combined under one roof in a model plant and the business grew to enormous proportions, now Chubb Locks. Charles Chubb was buried on the 22 May 1846 in the western side of Highgate Cemetery Highgate Cemetery is a place of ...
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Charles Archibald Chubb, 2nd Baron Hayter
Charles Archibald Chubb, 2nd Baron Hayter (11 November 1871 – 3 March 1967), was a British businessman. Chubb was the son of George Chubb, 1st Baron Hayter (1848–1946), and the great-grandson of Charles Chubb (1772–1845), who had founded Chubb and Sons Lock and Safe Co. Business career He was a director of the family firm and its managing director from 1898 until 1948, his cousin Harry Emory Chubb became the chairman soon after. He was president of the Planet Building Society (later Magnet & Planet B.S.) and was a senior member of the Court of Common Council, City of London. Personal life Chubb was educated at The Leys School The Leys School is a co-educational independent school in Cambridge, England. It is a day and boarding school for about 574 pupils between the ages of eleven and eighteen, and a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. Histo ..., Cambridge. He married Mary Haworth, daughter of John Fletcher Haworth JP, on 8 June 1898. They ...
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