John Burland Chubb (1861-1955) was a great-grandson of the Bridgwater artist John Chubb. He was a member of a talented family; his uncles included John Chubb, (1813-1859), an attorney and solicitor, of Cirencester, who married Caroline Tudway, in 1838 and died in 1859. He was also a talented amateur artist who made a series of lithographs based on his grandfather's topographical paintings of Bridgwater. Thomas Alford Chubb,(1815-1883), the second son, served as secretary, and later treasurer, to the South Eastern Railway Company. The third son, Harry, (1816-1888) was prominent in the management of a number of coal-gas companies and railways in London, and was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He died in 1888. The sixth son, Arthur, was a BA of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He died at the house of his brother, John, in 1852 at the age of 29. Of the other sons, Hammond Chubb (1829-1904) served as the secretary to the Bank of England for 30 years, having joined in 1847; he died in 1904 at the age of 75.