Henry Edward Cubitt, 2nd Baron Ashcombe (14 March 1867 – 27 October 1947), was a British politician and peer, the son of

George Cubitt, 1st Baron Ashcombe George Cubitt, 1st Baron Ashcombe, (4 June 1828 – 26 February 1917) of Denbies, Denbies House, Dorking, Surrey, was a British politician and peer, a son of Thomas Cubitt, the leading London builder and property developer of his day. Education ...

, and his wife Laura Joyce. He is also the great-grandfather of

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Education and career

Cubitt was educated at

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and

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. He was

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(MP) for

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between 1892 and 1906. He later served as

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from 1905 to 1939, and was appointed to the

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as a Companion (CB) in 1911. Cubitt succeeded to the peerage upon the death of his father in 1917. He was appointed to be a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Surrey in 1940.

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, a large estate in Surrey, was included in his inheritance from his father. The payment of

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and the upkeep of large estates during

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resulted in large parts of the estate being auctioned on 19 September 1921. He was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 4th Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) in the Territorial Army on 12 July 1922, and was awarded the

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(TD).''Army List''.

Family

He married Maud Mariamne Calvert, daughter of Colonel Archibald Motteux Calvert and Constance Maria Georgiana Peters, on 21 August 1890. They had six sons, three of whom were killed in the

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: *Henry Archibald Cubitt (born 3 January 1892, died 15 September 1916) *Alick George Cubitt (born 16 January 1894, died 24 November 1917) *William Hugh Cubitt (born 30 May 1896, died 24 March 1918) * Roland Calvert Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe (born 26 January 1899, died 28 October 1962), married

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, daughter of George Keppel and

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*Archibald Edward Cubitt (born 16 January 1901, died 13 February 1972) - married first Lady Irene Helen Pratt, and later Sibell Margaret Norman *Charles Guy Cubitt (born 13 February 1903, died 1979) - married Rosamund Mary Edith Cholmeley

Death and burial

He died on 27 October 1947 and is buried in the churchyard of St Barnabas Church,

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, Surrey.

References

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