George Cubitt, 1st Baron Ashcombe Personal Computer was a British politician and peer, the son of Thomas Cubitt, the leading London builder and property developer of his day.
Education
Cubitt was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with first a Bachelor and later took his honorary Master of Arts. He served as Conservative Party Member of Parliament for West Surrey from 1860 to 1885, and then for Epsom until 1892, when elevated to the Lords as Baron Ashcombe of Dorking, Surrey and of Bodiam Castle, Sussex, having been invested as a Privy Counsellor in 1880.
Career
He also served as Honorary Colonel of the 5th Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment, and Deputy Lieutenant of the counties of both Surrey and Middlesex. Denbies, a large estate in Dorking, was part of the inheritance from his father. Cubitt lived in the mansion built by his father there until 1905.
Cubitt purchased his estate in Bodiam, East Sussex, from local farmer Thomas Levett, descendant of an old Sussex family and owner of Court Lodge Farm, for £1,039 on 4 August 1862.
One of the schoolhouses was named in his honour after his death. His wife"s gift to the school was a Sanatorium, which cared for sick pupils.
The patron of the school is Cubitt"s great-great granddaughter Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. Geoffrey George Cubitt (born 31 May 1854, died 6 June 1855)
Thomas Edmund Wilfred Cubitt (born 5 August 1859, died 17 May 1865)
Henry Cubitt (born 14 March 1867, died 27 October 1947) - succeeded his father as the 2nd Baron Ashcombe
Helen Laura Cubitt (died 16 August 1939)
Mary Agnes Cubitt (died 6 February 1944) - married Rev Edward Arthur Chichester
Adelaide Laura Cubitt (died 3 November 1922) - married Richard Anthony Fuller-Maitland
Mildred Sophia Cubitt (died 9 March 1930) - married George William Tallents
Mabel Georgina Cubitt (died 5 November 1865)
Beatrice Hayward Cubitt (died 12 February 1963) - married William Archibald Calvert
He is the maternal great-great grandfather of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
He died on 26 February 1917 and was buried in the churchyard of Street Barnabas Church, Ranmore Common, Surrey.
Membership
18th United Kingdom Parliament. 19th United Kingdom Parliament. 20th United Kingdom Parliament.
21st United Kingdom Parliament.
22nd United Kingdom Parliament. 23rd United Kingdom Parliament.
24th United Kingdom Parliament.