Ruth Mary Hubbard

The Hon. Ruth Hubbard (b. Westminster, 30 October 1896, d. Addington, 23 August 1955) was a Girl Guide leader and six times Mayoress of Buckingham. She was a recipient of the Silver Fish Award, Girl Guiding’s highest adult honour. Personal life Ruth Mary Hubbard was the youngest daughter of Egerton Hubbard, 2nd Baron Addington and Mary Adelaide Portal. The family home was Seven Gables in the village of Addington, Buckinghamshire. She attended schools in Aldeburgh, Suffolk and West Drayton, Middlesex. She was a devout Christian, regularly attending St. Mary’s Church in Addington. She also supported the Free Churches and the Buckingham Corps of the Salvation Army, occasionally preaching at Buckingham’s Army Hall. She served as Secretary of the Buckingham Church Union in the early 1930s. Hubbard was a keen gardener, supporting the Buckingham and District Horticultural Society. In 1933 in order to protect her crops, she “destroyed 1,020 cabbage butterflies”. She also bred pedigree rabbits and was the President of the Buckingham Beekeepers’ Association.