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Hubbard, Richard (1796-1820)

Hubbard, Richard

Grantham, Lincolnshire; Windsor chair maker (fl. c. 1796-1820).

Origins obscure. First recorded married to Elizabeth Smith at Dembleby, Lincolnshire, 22 October 1795. Three children were baptised at St Wulfram’s Grantham: Susannah (1 August 1796); Charlotte (27 December 1797); John (27 December 1799).

In July 1802 he witnessed the marriage of Thomas Marsh of Little Gonerby, also a Windsor chair maker later established in Sleaford. Hubbard was living in Little Gonerby, now a suburb of Grantham, by 1796, and a map of 1808 shows his property on the main street.

Hubbard advertised in the Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford Mercury, 28 August and 11 September 1807 for ‘Three Journeymen Windsor and Fancy chairmakers’.

A number of Windsor chairs are known stamped HUBBARD GRANTHAM which are attributed to this maker (illustrated in Sergeant and Parker, Regional Furniture (2019), figs. 1-19). No date of death is known to be recorded, but his son John probably succeeded to the business about 1820.

Sources: Sergeant and Parker, ‘HUBBARD GRANTHAM and I HUBBARD GRANTHAM: a Late Georgian Windsor Chairmakers’ Whodunnit’, Regional Furniture (2019).