Harold Hubbard

Harold Evelyn Hubbard (1883 – 1953) was the second Bishop of Whitby[1] and an Honorary Chaplain to the King.

[2] A grandson of the first Lord Addingdon, he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford and ordained in 1908.

[3] His experience of preaching in the open air in South Shields Market Place suggested that he could communicate with large, noisy, hostile audiences.

[5] When peace came, he was successively Rector of Gisborough in Cleveland, Chaplain of Cheltenham College,[6] and finally Vicar of St John’s Middlesbrough,[7] before elevation to the Episcopate in 1939.

[8] On his death in 1953, his Will stated, somewhat unusually, that he wished to dispel any misconception that he had been making a fortune from his ministry in the church: the large sum being the result of legacies from wealthier members of his distinguished family.