Obituary The
Times 6 June 1905
Mrs. EMMA HUBBARD, whose death was announced in
The Times of Saturday, was left in
1870 the widow of John Waddington Hubbard, M.R.C.S., by whom she leaves two sons
and a daughter. Mrs. Hubbard was the younger daughter of the Red. Arthur Benoni
Evans, D.D., of Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, and was born in September,
1828. Her elder sister, Anne Evans, was well known as a poet and musician, and
her brothers, Sir John Evans, K.C.B., and Sebastian Evans, LL.D., have achieved
for themselves some position in the world of science and literature.
Mrs. Hubbard was a not infrequent correspondent of
Nature and other scientific
periodicals, more particularly on the subject of birds and their ways, and
several of her poems, either with or without her name, have appeared in
Longman’s Magazine and elsewhere. She
was also an artist of considerable power, and her delineations of some of our
rarer insects, drawn from the life, are remarkable for the knowledge they
indicate of insect habits and attitudes, as well as for their scrupulous
anatomical accuracy. Her principal pictorial work, however, consists of a series
of watercolour sketches in Kew Gardens, for many years one of her favourite
haunts. These drawings, remarkable not only for their artistic merit, but as an
historical record of the garden woodlands at the beginning of the 20th
century, may, it is hoped, like those of Miss North, find a permanent and
appropriate home in one of the museums in the gardens themselves. In the more
laborious and far less generally
appreciated art of indexing scientific works Mrs Hubbard was exceptionally
successful. Among other standard works Sir Michael Foster’s “Physiology” and her
brother’s “Ancient Stone Implements” owe no small measure of their practical
value for the student to the admirable indexes she complied for them. The wide
range of reading, however, and the power of co-ordinating its results, which so
well qualified her for tasks of this kind, necessarily appealed almost
exclusively to the specialist. Among her personal friends she will be best
remembered not so much by her intellectual gifts as by “genius for friendship”
which was her most distinctive characteristic.
Death
of Emma Hubbard (nee Evans)
Mrs. EMMA HUBBARD,
whose death was announced the other day, was left in 1870 the widow of John
Waddington Hubbard, M.R.C.S.
She was the younger
daughter of the Rev. Arthur Benoni Evans, D.D., of Market Bosworth,
Leicestershire, and was born in September, 1828.
Her elder sister,
Anne Evans, was well known as a poet and musician, and her brothers, Sir John
Evans, K.C.B., and Sebastian Evans, LL.D., have achieved position in the world
of science and literature.
Mrs. Hubbard was a
not infrequent correspondent “Nature” and other scientific periodicals, more
particularly on the subject of birds and their ways, and several of her poems
have appeared in “Longman’s Magazine" and elsewhere.
She was also an
artist of considerable power. Her principal pictorial work, however, consists of
a series of water-colour sketches in Kew Gardens, for many years one of her
favourite haunts.
Source : Mid Sussex Times, Tuesday 13
June 1905,
accessed online 2 July 2017 at
http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
“The Times”
publishes obituary notices of Sir William Samuel McMahon, third baronet, of
Mountfield Lodge, Omagh, County Tyrone ; and Mrs. Emma Hubbard, the widow of
John Waddington Hubbard, M.R.C.S., an artist, and a well-known writer on birds
and their ways.
Source : Sheffield Daily Telegraph,
Tuesday 6 June 1905,
accessed online 2 July 2017 at
http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk