[1] He was a member of a talented family; his uncles included John Chubb, (1813-1859), an attorney and solicitor, of Cirencester, who married Caroline Tudway, in 1838 and died in 1859.
He was also a talented amateur artist who made a series of lithographs based on his grandfather's topographical paintings of Bridgwater.
The third son, Harry, (1816-1888) was prominent in the management of a number of coal-gas companies and railways in London, and was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
[6] His father, Thomas Alford Chubb, noted that at the age of 6 he was drawing churches, and at 12 it was building interiors and railway stations.
[15] The family of the John Chubb purchased a Jacobean era Four-poster bed, from Bridgwater Castle, reputed to have been slept in by James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth at the time of the Battle of Sedgemoor.