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Known for. Chubb Locks & Safes. Spouse. Maria Heyter (1775–1846) Relatives. Jeremiah Chubb (1790–1847) John Chubb (1816–1872) Charles Chubb (1779 – 1846) was an English lock and safe manufacturer. Grave of Charles Chubb in Highgate Cemetery.
1798 Living in Winchester when he married Maria Hayter in Salisbury [1] 1818 His brother, Jeremiah, invented the detector lock, which was soon recognised as the best of its kind. 1818 Charles and Jeremiah Chubb moved to Wolverhampton to manufacture locks but this business was not successful; Jeremiah went to France and then America.
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.
Dec 6, 2021 · *Jeremiah Chubb was also born at Fordingbridge on June 10, 1790. *Charles married Maria Hayter on August 20, 1798. No family members attended the wedding.
The brothers Charles and Jeremiah Chubb were born in Hampshire in the late 1700s, writes Molly Forsyth. Both brothers became blacksmith apprentices, with Charles starting out as a ships’ ironmonger in Winchester before moving to the dockland area of Portsmouth in 1804, and Jeremiah soon joining him.
He married Maria Hayter on 20 August 1798—possibly against the wishes of both families as no members of either family attended the wedding. Jeremiah appears to have been living with Charles's family when he invented the detector lock (patent no. 4219, 3 February 1818).
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 ...
