Sir Stanley William Tubbs, 1st Baronet (22 March 1871 – 11 December 1941) was an

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politician, and benefactor. He was educated at

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, and as a young man in the 1890s joined his father Henry Tubbs in business at Tubbs Lewis & Co., a

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elastic manufacturer which had expanded by acquiring several textile mills along the

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since 1870. By 1900, he had taken over general management. He purchased ''Ellerncroft'' - a house in

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with a view over the river valley - from which he could establish each morning that work was underway by seeing smoke rising from the chimneys of the mills. Following his father's death in 1917, he became Governing Director of the company. He had a reputation as a strict employer, but provided regular social events for his workforce, such as an annual feast and concert known locally as a "Tubbs do". Stanley Tubbs sat as the Member of Parliament (MP) for

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between November 1922 and December 1923, where he is recorded as speaking six times in

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. Despite his victory in the 1922 election, he lost his seat to the

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candidate the following year when Stanley Baldwin unsuccessfully attempted to gain a popular mandate after taking over as prime minister. He was created a

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, of Wotton-under-Edge in the County of Gloucester, in 1929. His

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was inscribed ''Per deum et industriam obtinui'' (roughly translated from

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, "What I have is from God and hard work"). He also served as

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in 1931. He sold the business interests in London around this time, concentrating on his Gloucestershire operations. Tubbs died in December 1941, aged 70, and the baronetcy became extinct. At this time, over 90% of company contracts for elasticated fabric were with the military and government to supply the

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. New Mill, still visible today from his former home, was renamed ''New Mills'' when it became the global headquarters of

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