John Gellibrand Hubbard, 1st Baron Addington PC

Privy Council of the United Kingdom

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  (21 March 1805 – 28 August 1889) was a City of London financier and a Conservative Party

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 politician

Hubbard was born at Stratfield Grove, Sussex

Sussex

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, the son of John Hubbard and his wife Marianne Morgan. He was a merchant in the City of London

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 being head of the firm 'J. Hubbard & Co.', Russian Merchants. He was a director of Guardian Fire and Life Assurance Co and a director of the Bank of England

Bank of England

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, later rising to become Governor of the Bank of England. He was of Chairman of the Public Works and Exchequer Loan Committee between 1853 and 1875. Hubbard was a JP

Justice of the Peace

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 and Deputy Lieutenant

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 for Buckinghamshire and the City of London. In his lifetime Hubbard was active in the funding Canon Nathaniel Woodard's

Nathaniel Woodard

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 national network of Woodard Schools

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.

Hubbard was as elected as a Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Buckingham

Buckingham (UK Parliament constituency)

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 at the 1859 general election

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. He was re-elected in 1865

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, but when Buckingham's representation was reduced to one MP at the 1868 general election

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 he was defeated. He returned to the House of Commons at the 1874 general election

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 when he was elected as one of the four MPs for the City of London

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, and held the seat until he was created 1st Baron Addington

Baron Addington

Baron Addington, of Addington in the County of Buckingham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 22 July 1887 for the businessman and Conservative Member of Parliament, John Hubbard. He was head of the firm of John Hubbard & Co and also sat as a Member of Parliament for...

, of Addington

Addington, Buckinghamshire

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, Buckinghamshire

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 on 22 July 1887. He was invested as a Privy Counsellor in 1874.

Hubbard died at Addington Manor, Buckinghamshire at the age of 84.

Hubbard married Hon. Maria Margaret Napier, daughter of Captain William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier of Merchistoun and Eliza Cochrane-Johnstone, on 19 May 1837, and they had the following children:

• Hon. Alice Eliza Hubbard (1841–1931)
• Egerton Hubbard, 2nd Baron Addington
  Egerton Hubbard, 2nd Baron Addington
  Colonel Egerton Hubbard, 2nd Baron Addington VD was a British Peer.He was Member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire from 1874 to 1880, and from 1886 to 1889....
  
   (1842–1915)
• Francis Edward Hubbard (1844–1871)
• Hon. Lucy Marian Hubbard (1845–1893)
• Hon. Cecil John Hubbard (1846–1926)
• Hon. Arthur Gellibrand Hubbard (1848–1896)
• Hon. Rose Ellen Hubbard (1851–1933)
• Hon. Evelyn Hubbard (1852–1934)
• Hon. Clemency Hubbard (1856–1940)

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