Percival Chubb

Born: June 17, 1860, De­von­port, De­von, Eng­land.

Chubb at­tend­ed the Sta­tion­ers’ School in Lon­don, and joined the ci­vil ser­vice in 1878, in the le­gal de­part­ment of the Lo­cal Go­vern­ment Board. He es­tab­lished a cor­res­pon­dence so­ci­e­ty for man­u­script ex­change called the MS Club (1881), was a mem­ber of the Pro­gress­ive As­so­ci­a­tion, (1882); char­ter mem­ber of the Fa­bi­an Society (1884); joined the Lon­don branch of the Fel­low­ship of the New Life, an in­tel­lec­tu­al di­scuss­ion and st­udy group ded­i­cat­ed to de­vel­op­ing mo­dels of al­ter­na­tive so­ci­e­ties (1884-89); mem­ber of the Ethi­cal So­ci­e­ty (1886). He em­i­grat­ed to Amer­i­ca in 1889, and went on to be­come a lec­tur­er at Tho­mas Da­vid­son’s School of the Cul­tural Sci­enc­es, Farm­ing­ton, Con­nec­ti­cut; lec­tur­er at the Brook­lyn, New York, Acad­e­my of Arts and Sci­enc­es (1890-92); head of Eng­lish at the Brook­lyn Man­u­al Train­ing High School (1893-97); prin­ci­pal of the Se­cond Grade, New York So­ci­e­ty’s Eth­i­cal Cul­ture School (1897); lec­tur­er at the Pratt In­sti­tute and New York Un­i­ver­si­ty; As­so­ci­ate Lead­er, So­ci­e­ty for Eth­i­cal Cul­ture of New York (1897-1910); and Pre­si­dent, Dra­ma League of Amer­i­ca (1915-20). Af­ter re­tir­ing in 1932, he served as pre­si­dent of the Amer­i­can Eth­i­cal Un­ion (1934-39). His works inc­lude:

Edited Dryden’s Pal­a­mon and Ar­cite; or the Knight’s Tale from Chau­cer (New York, 1908)
On the Re­li­gious Fron­tier: From an Out­post of Eth­i­cal Re­li­gion (New York: Mac­mill­an Com­pa­ny, 1931)
The Teach­ing of Eng­lish in the El­e­men­tary and Se­con­dary School (New York: Mac­mill­an Com­pa­ny, 1902)
Introduction to Se­lect Writ­ings of Ralph Wal­do Em­er­son (1888)
Essays of Mon­taigne (ed­it­or), 1893

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