# Percival Chubb

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**Percival Ashley Chubb** (June 17, 1860 in [Devonport, Plymouth](/source/Devonport,_Plymouth)[1]–1959) was a founding member of the [Fabian Society](/source/Fabian_Society), an influential British [socialist](/source/Socialism) organization that aims to advance the principles of [democratic socialism](/source/Democratic_socialism) via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies.

Born in 1860, Chubb attended the [Stationers' School](/source/Stationers'_Company's_School) in London. He entered the [civil service](/source/Civil_service) in 1878, joining the legal department of the Local Government Board. In 1884, he helped found the [Fabian Society](/source/Fabian_Society), calling a series of meetings that led to the organization's founding.[2] Two years later, he joined the [Ethical Society](/source/Ethical_Society).[3]

In 1889, Chubb emigrated to the United States, where he took a series of teaching jobs: first, lecturer at Thomas Davidson's School of the Cultural Sciences in [Farmington, Connecticut](/source/Farmington,_Connecticut); then lecturer at the Brooklyn Academy of Arts and Sciences (1890-1892); Head of English, Brooklyn Manual Training High School (1893-1897); second-grade principal of New York Society's Ethical Culture School (1897); lecturer at the [Pratt Institute](/source/Pratt_Institute) and [New York University](/source/New_York_University), [New York](/source/New_York_(state)). From 1897 to 1910, he was the associate leader of the [Society for Ethical Culture](/source/Society_for_Ethical_Culture) of New York.[3]

He married his second wife, Anna Sheldon, the widow of Walter Sheldon, founder of the St. Louis Ethical Society, which Chubb would lead from 1911 to 1932.[3]

Chubb was the president of the [Drama League of America](/source/The_Drama_League) from 1915-1920. He retired in 1932, but served as president of the [American Ethical Union](/source/American_Ethical_Union) from 1934 to 1939.

His publications and related work include editing [John Dryden](/source/John_Dryden)'s *[Palamon and Arcite](/source/Palamon_and_Arcite)*,[4] a translation of [The Knight's Tale](/source/The_Knight's_Tale) of [Chaucer](/source/Geoffrey_Chaucer) (New York, 1908); *On the religious frontier: from an outpost of ethical religion*(Macmillan Co, New York, 1931); *The teaching of English in the elementary and secondary school* (Macmillan Co, new York, 1902); and *Introduction to Select writings of [Ralph Waldo Emerson](/source/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson)* (1888); editor of *[Essays of Montaigne](/source/Essays_of_Montaigne)* (1893).[3]

Chubb died in 1960.[3]

## References

1. [CHUBB, Percival](https://archive.org/details/whoswho141926/page/452/mode/2up), in *[Who's Who in America](/source/Who's_Who_in_America)* (vol. 14, 1926 edition); p. 452

1. MacKenzie, Norman (1979). ["Percival Chubb and the Founding of the Fabian Society"](http://www.jstor.org/stable/3827434). *Victorian Studies*. **23** (1): 29–55. [ISSN 0042-5222](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0042-5222). [JSTOR 3827434](https://www.jstor.org/stable/3827434)

1. ["CHUBB, Percival Ashley, 1860-1960, Fabian - Archives Hub"](https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb97-chubb). *archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk*. Retrieved 2020-08-13.

1. Dryden, J., Chubb, P., Chubb, P., Chaucer, G. (1899). [Dryden's Palamon and Arcite: or The Knight's tale from Chaucer](https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100397631/Home). New York: The Macmillan company.

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