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Gubbins

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Gubbins is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Beatrice Gubbins (1878–1944), Irish artist in watercolour
  • Colin Gubbins KCMG, DSO, MC (1896–1976), prime mover of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in the Second World War
  • George Gubbins (born 1935), retired Canadian jockey
  • James Gubbins Fitzgerald (1852–1926), medical practitioner, Irish nationalist politician and UK Member of Parliament (MP)
  • John Harington Gubbins (1852–1929), British linguist, consular official and diplomat
  • John Russell Gubbins (1838-1906), Irish thoroughbred horse breeder, of Ard Patrick and Galtee More
  • Nathaniel Gubbins (1893-1976), British journalist and humourist
  • Nick Gubbins (born 1993), English cricketer

See also

  • Gubbins band, group of footpads, sheep-stealers, beggars, cutpurses, cut-throats and highwaymen who inhabited the area around Lydford in Devon around the time of the English Civil War
  • Gubbins, Hertfordshire
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