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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Charles_Chubb_(businessman)Charles Chubb (businessman) - Wikipedia

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   Life. Born in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, he trained as a blacksmith who started a hardware business at Winchester then moved to Portsea, Portsmouth. Here he improved on the "detector" lock, originally patented in 1818 by his brother, Jeremiah Chubb. [1]

2. www.expressandstar.com › news › businessHow brothers secured their place in history with a word ...

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   Dec 6, 2021 · Charles made more friends in high places in 1828, when the Duke of Wellington called upon Chubb to pick open his front door at Aspley House, and supply four new locks.

3. www.oxforddnb.com › display › 10Chubb, Charles - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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   Charles and Jeremiah Chubb, having patented the lock, decided to move in 1818 and manufacture locks in Wolverhampton—known since the seventeenth century as the centre of English lock-making.

4. www.britannica.com › biography › Charles-ChubbCharles Chubb | Lock Maker, Security Expert | Britannica

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   Charles Chubb (died May 16, 1845, Islington, London, Eng.) was a British inventor and entrepreneur, founder of the locksmith firm of Chubb & Son (now Chubb & Son PLC), which in the 20th century became a major corporation manufacturing and distributing locks, safes, alarms, fire extinguishers, security systems, surveillance equipment, and other ...

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5. historyinportsmouth.co.uk › people › chubbCHARLES CHUBB (1772–1846) - LOCKSMITH - History In Portsmouth

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   PEOPLE IN PORTSMOUTH. CHARLES CHUBB (1772–1846) - LOCKSMITH. The name of Chubb has been synonymous with the most secure form of locks for 200 years and it was in Portsea that the family business established itself in 1804.

6. www.janeglennie.co.uk › deadlockDeadlock - JANE GLENNIE

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   Frequent crimes, including daring robberies of the dockyard warehouses and escapes from the hulks led to a competition being launched for an ‘unpickable lock’. The Chubb brothers accepted the challenge and created the now familiar Chubb lock still used to this day.

7. www.gracesguide.co.uk › Charles_ChubbCharles Chubb - Graces Guide

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   1828 Jeremiah Chubb, having lived in America as a machinist, returned to Britain. 1830 Charles established a lock factory in Temple Street, Wolverhampton. This led to great rivalry between Chubb and other Wolverhampton locksmiths, resulting in lock-picking contests held in public.