Egerton Hubbard, 2nd Baron Addington explained

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.

Life and career

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.

Family

He married Mary Adelaide Portal, daughter of Sir Wyndham Portal, 1st Baronet, in June 1880.[2] They had the following children:

Arms

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Index 852. 2011-08-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120514171710/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index852.htm . 14 May 2012.
  2. Book: Burke . Bernard . A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland . 1886 . Harrison . 1485 . en.
  3. Web site: Egerton Hubbard, 2nd Baron Addington . The Peerage . 24 July 2012 .
  4. Book: Burke's Peerage . 1915.