Background
Hubbard, Wynant Davis was born on August 28, 1900 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Charles and Alice (Field) Hubbard.
Hubbard, Wynant Davis was born on August 28, 1900 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Charles and Alice (Field) Hubbard.
Educated Christchurch, Bournemouth, England, Seligs, Montreux, Switzerland. Student Milton (Msas.) Academy, 1918, Harvard, 1921.
1 son, Wynant Davis; married 3d, Loyala Bradley Lee, June 10, 1950. In gold, silver mining, Ontario, 1920, asbestos, Quebec, 1921. Professional hunter, British Central Africa, 1922-1924.
Leader First National Motion Picture expedition to Northern Rhodesia 1925-1926.
Rancher Ibamba, Northern Rhodesia, 1929-1935. War correspondent Ethiopian side Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936.
President The Africa Company, export, 1938-1939. Chief livestock Development Department of Interior, Saint Croix, Virgin Islands, 1943.
Principal agricultural economist Office Foreign Agricultural Relations, 1943.
Acting director division agriculture and fisheries United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, Cairo, 1943-1944. Acting chief United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Mission, Ethiopia, 1944-1945. Export-import in mineral business Matavic Corporation, 1948-1949.
Vice president, general manager El Ghedem Mining Corporation, also El Ghedem Mining Corporation, South America, Asmara, Eritrea, East Africa, 1950-1951, director, since 1950.
Served as Lieutenant, Air Force, United States Navy, 1917. Fellow Zoological Society (London), American Geography Society. Member American Society Mammalogists, Society Preservation Fauna of the Empire, Zoological Society Florida (founder, executive vice president, director), Humane Society of Greater Miami (director since 1958).
Clubs: Delphic, South-K, Institute-Hasty Pudding, Varsity (Harvard).
Married Margaret Carson, 1921. Married second, Isabella Menzies, 1928. Married 3d, Loyala Bradley Lee, June 10, 1950.
Children: Charles Joseph, Margaret Carson.