Charles Beaumont Barnes Grubb (28 June 1852 – 20 May 1930) was an Australian politician.

Early life

Grubb was born in 1852 at Newnham Hall, Janefield in the West Tamar region of

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in 1852. Grubb's father

William Dawson Grubb William Dawson Grubb was a Tasmanian politician, lawyer, and investor in timber and mining ventures. Grubb was born on 16 October 1817, in London, England. He first came to Van Diemen's Land in 1832, but returned to England to complete his leg ...

(1817–1879) had emigrated to Van Diemen's Land at the age of 18, although later returning to England to study law. At this time he also married Marianne (née Beaumont; d. June 1905, aged 89), a native of

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, Yorkshire. William Grubb later became a member of the

Tasmanian Legislative Council The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, H ...

(1869–1879). He was educated at

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, Mona Vale, Ross, Tasmania and after school, took up farming, including Merino sheep and North Devon cattle.

Vocations

In 1882 Grubb was elected to the

Tasmanian House of Assembly The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. The Assembly has 25 m ...

, representing the seat of Selby. He served until 1885, when he had announced he was not continuing. He remained a

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, and sheep and cattle breeder, on the property 'Strathroy', near Launceston. He was a director of the Tasmanian Woolgrowers' Agency Company Limited, the Tasmania mine, the Commercial Bank of Tasmania, and president of the National Agricultural and Pastoral Society.

Later life

Grubb died on 20 May 1930, aged 80, in Launceston, caused by a heavy fall after thrown from a trap due to the horse slipping. The funeral was considered impressive, with well over 100 motor cars in the funeral cortege. He was survived by his sons, Geoffrey, and R. C., three married daughters, and his second wife. Another son had died the month earlier, on 28 April 1930. Grubb was buried next to his first wife, Marion (who had died earlier at Sydney, 15 July 1911).

References

1852 births 1930 deaths Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Colony of Tasmania people {{Australia-politician-stub