Charles Grubb Explained

Charles Grubb
Office:Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for Selby
Term Start:23 May 1882
Term End:February 1885
Predecessor:Thomas Just
Successor:William Sidebottom
Birthname:Charles Beaumont Barnes Grubb
Birth Date:1852 6, df=yes
Birth Place:West Tamar, Van Diemen's Land
Death Place:Launceston, Tasmania

Charles Beaumont Barnes Grubb (28 June 1852 – 20 May 1930) was an Australian politician.

Early life

Grubb was born in 1852 at Newnham Hall, Janefield in the West Tamar region of Van Diemen's Land in 1852.[1]

Grubb's father William Dawson Grubb (1817–1879) had emigrated to Van Diemen's Land at the age of 18, although later returning to England to study law.[2] At this time he also married Marianne (née Beaumont; d. June 1905, aged 89), a native of Huddersfield, Yorkshire. William Grubb later became a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (1869–1879).[3]

He was educated at Horton College, Mona Vale, Ross, Tasmania and after school, took up farming, including Merino sheep and North Devon cattle.

Vocations

In 1882 Grubb was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly, representing the seat of Selby. He served until 1885, when he had announced he was not continuing.[4]

He remained a pastoralist, and sheep and cattle breeder, on the property 'Strathroy', near Launceston.[5] He was a director of the Tasmanian Woolgrowers' Agency Company Limited, the Tasmania mine, the Commercial Bank of Tasmania, and president of the National Agricultural and Pastoral Society.[6]

Later life

Grubb died on 20 May 1930, aged 80, in Launceston,[7] caused by a heavy fall after thrown from a trap due to the horse slipping. The funeral was considered impressive, with well over 100 motor cars in the funeral cortege.

He was survived by his sons, Geoffrey, and R. C., three married daughters, and his second wife. Another son had died the month earlier, on 28 April 1930. Grubb was buried next to his first wife, Marion (who had died earlier at Sydney, 15 July 1911).[8]

Notes and References

  1. News: Obituary . . LXXXVIII . 121 . Tasmania, Australia . 21 May 1930 . 13 January 2023 . 6 (Daily) . National Library of Australia.
  2. News: Death of an old colonist . . XXV . 138 . Tasmania, Australia . 12 June 1905 . 13 January 2023 . 2 . National Library of Australia.
  3. News: The late Hon. W. D. GRUBB . . XXXIX . 35 . Tasmania, Australia . 10 February 1879 . 13 January 2023 . 2 . National Library of Australia.
  4. News: The representative of Selby . . IV . 230 . Tasmania, Australia . 16 October 1884 . 13 January 2023 . 3 . National Library of Australia.
  5. News: Late MR. C. B. GRUBB . . LXXXVIII . 123 . Tasmania, Australia . 23 May 1930 . 13 January 2023 . 8 (Daily) . National Library of Australia.
  6. News: Tragic accident . . CXXXII . 19,590 . Tasmania, Australia . 21 May 1930 . 13 January 2023 . 7 . National Library of Australia.
  7. grubbc188 . Charles Beaumont Barnes Grubb . 26 July 2022.
  8. News: Family Notices . . XXXI . 169 . Tasmania, Australia . 18 July 1911 . 13 January 2023 . 1 . National Library of Australia.