Cecil Herbert Edward Chubb
1876 – 1934
Cecil Herbert Edward Chubb came from modest beginnings. Born in 1876 in the village of Shrewton, Wiltshire, 4 miles west of Stonehenge,
the eldest son of Alfred and Mary Chubb. "Fred" was the village saddler and harness maker, as was his father before him. He
attended the local village school and then Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury, where from the age of 14 he worked for a time
as a student teacher.
He met his future wife at a cricket game between his Bishop Wordsworth School and Fisherton House Asylum. He then attended Christ's
College, Cambridge where he earned a first in science in 1904 followed by a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1905, before he began to practice
law. He became a barrister and amassed a considerable fortune
In 1902 Chubb married Mary Finch, and after her uncle died, she inherited the Fisherton House Asylum psychiatric hospital near Salisbury.
Chubb gave up law to run the asylum, which was one of the largest in the country, introducing