Harold Evelyn Hubbard

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Harold Evelyn Hubbard (1883 - 1953) was the second Bishop of Whitby [1]and a King’s Chaplain[2]. A grandson of the first Lord Addingdon he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford and ordained in 1908. After a Curacy at Skelton-in-Cleveland he served with great distinction in the First World War[3]. When peace came he was successively Rector of Gisborough in Cleveland, Chaplain of Cheltenham College[4], and finally Vicar of St John’s Middlesbrough[5] before elevation to the Episcopate in 1939. He served throughout the whole of the Second World War and retired in 1946[6]. On his death in 1953 his Will stated, somewhat unusually, that he wished to dispel any misconception that he had been making a fortune from his ministry in the church: the large sum being the result of legacies from wealthier members of his distinguished family[7].


Church of England titles
Preceded by
Henry St John Stirling Woollcombe		 Bishop of Whitby
1939 – 1946		 Succeeded by
Walter Hubert Baddeley

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Three New Bishops Suffragan Selby, Whitby, And Jarrow (News) The Times Saturday, Dec 24, 1938; pg. 10; Issue 48186; col E
  2. ^ The Times, Wednesday, Dec 22, 1937; pg. 15; Issue 47874; col E Chaplains To The King- Rev HE Hubbard, D..SO., M.C., Vicar of St John’s Middlesbrough to replace the late Canon Hugh Richard Lawrie Sheppard, C.H., D.D.
  3. ^ Winning both the Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross- ”Who was Who 1897-1990” London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X
  4. ^ Where his Times obituary noted he was "held in the highest regard for the humour and sympathy he brought to bear on a wide range of problems" Wednesday, May 27, 1953; pg. 8; Issue 52632; col E Bishop H. E. Hubbard Former Suffragan Bishop Of Whitby
  5. ^ Also (in his final two years at St John’s) Rural Dean of Middlesbrough- Who’s Who (Ibid)
  6. ^ The Times, Friday, Dec 20, 1946; pg. 4; Issue 50639; col B Resignation of the Bishop Of Whitby
  7. ^ Genealogical details
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