Grahame Burnell Tubbs was born in North Highgate, Middlesex [now London], England in 1891 [or 1892 - sources differ *] and trained as an architect at the Architectural Association Day School in London and at the First Atelier of Architecture. In 1916 he joined the London office of his father Percy Burrell Tubbs (1868-1933), becoming a partner with him and Ronald Aver Duncan (1889-1960) in the architectural practice Percy Tubbs Son & Duncan in London in 1922. From the 1940s he was in partnership with Duncan and William John Arthur Osburn in the architectural firm Tubbs, Duncan & Osburn.
Grahame Burnell Tubbs was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1918 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1950. He was Honorary Librarian of the Society of Architects from 1922 to 1925, and contributed articles to The Architectural Review and Architecture magazine.
His address was given as 10 Gray's Inn Square, London in 1923; 30 John Street, Bedford Row, London in 1926; 39 Great James Street, Bedford Row, London in 1930; 16 Harpur Street, London in 1935 and 1939. He died in London on 23 April 1965.
* His year of birth is given as 1891 in Who's Who in Architecture 1923.
Who's Who in Architecture 1923. Edited by Frederick Chatterton. London: Architectural Press, 1923