[1] He was a notable performer for Whitwell Cricket Club in the 1880s with Samuel Malthouse and 'G G' Walker and all three also played for Welbeck as well as the county.
[2] Stubbings played for Players of the North in 1877, in a scratch team for Yorkshire against the Australians in 1878 and for Derbyshire against Harrow Wanderers in the 1879 season.
His debut first-class appearance for the Derbyshire side was in the 1880 season against the touring Australians, and in the same year he played county matches against Yorkshire and Lancashire taking 5–51 in the second innings.
Stubbings was a right-handed batsman and played 10 innings in 5 first-class matches with a top score of 10 and an average of 3.71.
Stubbings' brother, Walter, fourteen years his junior, played one first-class match for Derbyshire.