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Chubb was born in Steeple Langford near Salisbury, England.
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Chubb was born in Steeple Langford near Salisbury, England.
He had seven children, among them Ernest Charles Chubb who also became an ornithologist and was a museum curator in Durban. In 1924 Chubb was knocked down by a car outside the Natural History Museum and died two weeks later in London. Chubb began working at the British Museum at the age of 26.
Among the birds he described are Cobb"s wren and the tinamou genus Crypturellus.
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