ASHcoMBE COMPLETE PEERAGE 279 ASHCOMBE OF DORKING AND OF BODIAM CASTLE BARONY. I. George CuBiTT, ist s. and h. of Thomas Cubitt, of J jj Denbies, the eminent builder (") (who ^. 20 Dec. 1855, in ° * his 68th year), by Mary Anne, da. of Samuel Warner, was b. 4 June 1828, at Clapham Common ; ed. at Trin. Coll. Cambridge ; B.A., 1851 ; M.A., 1854 ; was M.P. (Conservative) for West Surrey 1860-85, ^""^ ^°'" '^^ Surrey, 1885-92 ; Second Church-Estates Commissr., 1874-79 ; P.C. 24 Mar. 1880; Member of the Council of Selwyn College, 1887. On 22 Aug. 1892, he was cr. (^) BARON ASHCOMBE OF DORKING, Surrey, AND OF BODIAM CASTLE, (<^) Sussex. He w., 14 June 1853, at Dorking, Laura, yst. da. of the Rev. James Joyce, Vicar of Dorking, by Sarah, da. of ( — ) Brakspear, of Henley on Thames. She, who was h. 13 Aug. 1826, d. 7 July 1904, at 17 Prince's Gate, Midx, and was bur. at Ranmore, Surrey. [Henry Cubitt, 3rd, (*) but ist surv. s. and h. ap., ^. at 17 Prince's Gate afsd., 14 Mar., and bap. i May 1867, at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, Midx; ed. at Eton, and at Trin. Coll. Cambridge ; B.A. 1889; M.A. 1891. M.P. (Conservative) South East Surrey 1 892-1 906 ; Lord Lieut, and Custos Rotulorum, Surrey, 1905. He »;., 21 Aug. 1890, at Ockley, Surrey, Maud Marianne, yr. of the 2 daughters of Archibald Motteux Calvert, Col. R.A., of Ockley Court, Surrey, by Constance, da. of Henry Peters, of Betchworth Park. She was b. in 1865, at Charlton, near Woolwich.] Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 3,989 acres in Surrey ; 2,200 in Devon, and 600 in Sussex. Total. — 6,789 acres ; worth ;^8,509 a year. Principal Residence. — Denbies, near Dorking, Surrey. Note. In 1909 the Surrey property, consisting of 4,200 acres, had become the property of his Lordship's h. ap. (') The buildings on the Westminster and Lowndes estates, (including Belgrave Sq., Lowndes Sq., Chesham Place, and the vast district known as South Belgravia, between Eaton Sq. and the Thames) as also those erected at an earlier date in Tavistock Sq., Gordon Sq. and Woburn Place, on the estates of the Duke of Bedford and Lord Southampton, form the chief part of his undertakings. His yr. br., William Cubitt, for two years (1860-62) L. Mayor of London {cl. 1863), was some- time in the same business. () This was one of 8 Baronies conferred at the recommendation of Lord Salis- bury on leaving office, for a list of which see note sub Llangattock. C) Lord Ashcombe's arms, a modern grant, are Cheeky gold and gules with a pile silver and a lion's head razed sable on the pile. The Cubitts are a yeoman family of East Norfolk, of whom the branch settled at Catfield showed, on their eighteenth century monuments, a shield of a bent bow with an arrow, [ex inform. Oswald Barron.) V.G. C) Of his two elder brothers, (i) Geoffrey George, b. 31 May 1854, d. 6 June '855, (2) Thomas Edmund Wilfred, b. 5 Aug. 1859 ^'^ Denbies, d. 17 May 1865.
