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unusual facts about Chubb


Racal

In 1984, Racal bought Chubb, a security company that manufactured safes and locks.


Chubb baronets

The Chubb Baronetcy, of Stonehenge in the County of Wiltshire, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 17 September 1919 for Cecil Chubb, the last owner of Stonehenge.

Chubb detector lock

The first detector lock was produced in 1818 by Jeremiah Chubb of Portsmouth, England, as the result of a Government competition to create an unpickable lock.

Jeremiah Chubb, who was working with his brother, Charles, as a ship's outfitter and ironmonger in Portsmouth, invented and patented his detector lock in 1818.

The Chubb lock reportedly became popular as a result of the interest generated when George IV accidentally sat on a Chubb lock that still had the key inserted.

Chubb Rock

Chubb Rock is featured in the new single "Summertime Anthem" by Eric Roberson in which they filmed the video on the streets of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, New York where he credited his wife and manager, KeKe Simpson, for putting the duo together.

Emil Mosbacher

His numerous other offices included Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, chairman of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and directorships of Chemical Bank, Chubb, Abercrombie & Fitch, and other companies.

George Charles Hayter Chubb, 3rd Baron Hayter

Chubb was educated at The Leys School, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read history, graduating in 1932 with an MA.

George Charles Hayter Chubb, 3rd Baron Hayter KCVO CBE (25 April 1911–2 September 2003) was a British industrialist and politician.

John Degnan

John J. Degnan, former Attorney General of New Jersey, vice chairman and chief operating officer of The Chubb Corporation

Pingualuit crater

The Pingualuit Crater (French: cratère des Pingualuit; Inuktitut, "where the land rises"), formerly called Chubb Crater and later New Quebec Crater (cratère du Nouveau-Québec), is a young impact crater, by geological standards, located in the Ungava Peninsula of Quebec.

Richard De Smet

After an initially suspicious reception (a Dr Chubb roundly accused him of excessive missionary zeal at the Kandy session of the Indian Philosophical Congress in 1954), his competence and self-possession won the day and he soon found himself being invited to lecture or give courses at universities and colleges across the country.

The Prison Phoenix Trust

Freeing the Spirit through Meditation and Yoga by Sandy Chubb, Korky Paul and Sister Elaine MacInnes – published 2005 by the PPT ISBN 978-0-9550334-0-7 for inmates with basic reading skills


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