CHUBB, THOMAS English deist, was born at East Harnham, near Salisbury, on Sept. 29, 1679. The son of a maltster, he was apprenticed to a glove-maker and subsequently worked for a tallow-chandler. Later he lived for some years in the house of the master of the rolls, Sir Joseph Jekyll, apparently as a servant of some kind. He died in Salisbury on Feb. 8, 1746. He appeared as an author during the Arian controversy with an essay, The Supremacy of the Father Asserted, published on Whis ton's authority in 1715. Mainly interesting as showing the spread of rationalism in the popular mind of the period, he was regarded by Voltaire as one of the most logical of his school. (See DEIsM. ) His chief works are Discourse concerning Reason (173I) ; True Gospel of Jesus Christ (1739); and Posthumous Works (1748).