John Cubbon

• Birth date            2 December 1872 at Douglas, Isle of Man.
• Married (1)         1900 Birkenhead Bertha Oldam she died 1916.
• Married (2)         1920 at Manchester Alice Eleanor Winfield Burgess – she died 1926.
• Death date          5 May 1960 at Buxton

John Cubbon was the son of Thomas and Charlotte Cubbon of The Priory Douglas Isle of Man and educated at King Williams College IoM May 1889-Midsummer1890 [King Williams College Register 1833-1904 page 250]. Details of his training are obscure but must have been rapid, for in 1898 he was described as having been “for some years” the principal assistant of J Gibbons Sankey. Following the early and sudden death of J Gibbons Sankey in December 1898, his practice was entirely assigned to John Cubbon and his brother, Thomas W Cubbon, an architect already in practice in Birkenhead. The Manchester practice was continued under the name of Sankey, Cubbon and Cubbon. Thomas W Cubbon continued to maintain his own office in Birkenhead and he would appear to have entered this partnership solely to provide his younger brother with initial management expertise and Sankey’s clients with some degree of reassurance. The partnership was dissolved in 1901, after which John Cubbon worked alone under the style of Sankey and Cubbon. By 1907 the style Sankey and Gibbon had been discontinued, the practice being henceforth in John Cubbon’s sole name. He was elected ARIIBA in 1899 and FRIBA in 1910.

John Cubbon retired in 1935 and died on 5 May 1960 at The Portland Nursing Home Buxton, the funeral being held at Manchester Crematorium on 10 May 1960.

He married twice, both wives pre-deceasing him.

Address
1903        Sankey & Cubbon, architects and surveyors, 76 Bindloss Chambers 4 Chapel Walks
1909        Sankey & Cubbon architects and surveyors, 76 Bindloss Chambers 4 Chapel Walks
1909        Cubbon, John ARIBA FMAS (Sankey & Cubbon) 76, Bindloss Chambers. 4 Chapel Walks
1919-1920    John Cubbon. FRIBA,  42, John Dalton Street, Manchester.
1923        John Cubbon. FRIBA, 202 Upper Chorlton Road.

Residence
1903     John Cubbon architect & surveyor (Sankey & Cubbon) The Cottage, Swann Lane Cheadle Hulme
1909     John Cubbon architect & surveyor (Sankey & Cubbon) The Cottage, Swann Lane Cheadle Hulme
1936     The Orchard, Ballsalla Isle of Man
1960    May Place Malvern Wells (Manchester Guardian)
1960     The School House Sandbach Cheshire (probate)