2-995-554 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Right Hon. W. Cubitt, M.P., the new Lord Mayor, from a photograph by Mayall, 1860. 'The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor was born at Buxton, near Coltishall, in Norfolk, and in early life served about four years in the Royal Navy. In 1810, being then nineteen years of age, he turned his attention to commercial matters, and entered the building trade, which he carried on until within the last four years, and in which he realised an ample fortune in connexion with his brothers. The house of Cubitt is now one of the most eminent in the country...Mr. Cubitt's political opinions are those of an advanced Conservative, who looks to reforms as both desirable and necessary. He is a genuine supporter of Church and State; and yet, in 1855, he voted for the abolition of compulsory church rates...Mr. Cubitt's election to the mayoralty is very warmly hailed by a numerous circle of friends whose esteem he has long enjoyed. The right honourable gentleman has been a widower seven years, and he has suffered other domestic bereavements. His only son died, in 1841, at Cambridge, when about to take his degree, and his eldest daughter died six years ago'. From "Illustrated London News", 1860.