Honorific-Prefix: | Colonel The Right Honourable |
The Lord Addington | |
Term Start1: | 29 August 1889 |
Term End1: | 14 June 1915 Hereditary Peerage |
Predecessor1: | The 1st Lord Addington |
Successor1: | The 3rd Lord Addington |
Office3: | Member of Parliament for Buckingham |
Term Start3: | 27 July 1886 |
Term End3: | 28 August 1889 |
Predecessor3: | Sir Edmund Verney |
Successor3: | Sir Edmund Verney |
Term Start4: | 17 February 1874 |
Term End4: | 31 March 1880 |
Predecessor4: | Sir Harry Verney |
Successor4: | Sir Harry Verney |
Birth Date: | 29 December 1842 |
Death Date: | 14 June 1915 |
Egerton Hubbard, 2nd Baron Addington VD (29 December 1842 – 14 June 1915) was a British Peer.[1] He was Member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire from 1874 to 1880, and from 1886 to 1889.
The son of John Gellibrand Hubbard, 1st Baron Addington, he succeeded the Barony on the death of his father. He held the office of High Steward of Buckingham.
He was educated at Radley College, and graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, with a First B.A. in 1865, and with an M.A. in 1866. In 1863, he was commissioned into the 3rd Buckinghamshire Rifle Volunteer Corps (after 1875 amalgamated into the 1st Buckinghamshire Rifle Volunteers). He was promoted lieutenant in 1871, captain in 1887, major and lieutenant-colonel in 1890, and colonel in 1895. He resigned his commission in February 1900.
He married Mary Adelaide Portal, daughter of Sir Wyndham Portal, 1st Baronet, in June 1880.[2] They had the following children:
Crest: | In front of a fasces fessewise Proper an eagle's head as in the arms. |
Escutcheon: | Vert a chevron engrailed plain cotised Argent between three eagles' heads erased of the second each gorged with a collar fleurettée Gules |
Supporters: | On either side an eagle Argent wings addorsed gorged with a collar fleurettée Gules and pendent therefrom an escutcheon Ermine charged with a rose Gules |
Motto: | Alta Petens (Latin for: Seeking Higher Things)[4] |