John Hubbard, 1st Baron Addington

Who was John Hubbard, 1st Baron Addington?

John Gellibrand Hubbard, 1st Baron Addington PC was a City of London financier and a Conservative Party politician

Hubbard was born at Stratfield Grove, Sussex, the son of John Hubbard and his wife Marianne Morgan. He was a merchant in the City of London being head of the firm 'J. Hubbard & Co.', Russian Merchants. He was a director of Guardian Fire and Life Assurance Co and a director of the Bank of England, later rising to become successively Deputy Governor and then Governor of the Bank of England. He was of Chairman of the Public Works and Exchequer Loan Committee between 1853 and 1875. Hubbard was a JP and Deputy Lieutenant for Buckinghamshire and the City of London. In his lifetime Hubbard was active in the funding Canon Nathaniel Woodard's national network of Woodard Schools.

Hubbard was as elected as a Member of Parliament for Buckingham at the 1859 general election. He was re-elected in 1865, but when Buckingham's representation was reduced to one MP at the 1868 general election he was defeated.