John Chubb (10 December 1816 – 30 October 1872), was an English
locksmith and inventor who patented many improvements to locks, safes and strong rooms.
He succeeded his father
Charles Chubb, who had founded the family company of
Chubb & Son.
He wrote an important paper on locks and keys, for which he was awarded the
Telford Medal
The Telford Medal is a prize awarded by the British Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) for a paper or series of papers. It was introduced in 1835 following a bequest made by Thomas Telford, the ICE's first president. It can be awarded in gold ...
in 1850 by the
Institution of Civil Engineers
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association for civil engineers and a charitable body in the United Kingdom. Based in London, ICE has over 92,000 members, of whom three-quarters are located in the UK, whi ...
.
He had married twice. His three sons John, George and Henry succeeded him in running the business, of whom George became
Baron Hayter of Chislehurst in 1928.
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1816 births
1872 deaths
19th-century British inventors
Locksmiths
English non-fiction writers
English male non-fiction writers
19th-century English male writers
Businesspeople from Portsmouth
Engineers from Portsmouth
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