Percy Burnell Tubbs was born in London, England on 29 February 1868 and was articled to a William Patterson (?-1886) from 1883 to 1886 and then, following the death of Patterson, to Herbert Ford (1832?-1903) and Robert Lempriere Hesketh (1850-1937) of Ford & Hesketh from 1886 to 1888. He also studied architecture and painting with Ferdinand Lamotte in Paris in 1884. After leaving Ford and Hesketh he was employed as an assistant to Franklin & Andrews at Ludgate Hill, London.
Tubbs commenced independent practice as an architect in London in 1889. From 1922 he was in partnership with his son, Grahame Burnell Tubbs (1891-1965), and Ronald Aver Duncan (1889-1960) as Percy Tubbs, Son & Duncan.
Tubbs was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1904. He was President of the Society of Architects from 1912 to 1914 and became a member of the Art Workers Guild in 1927.
Tubbs' address was given as 77 Fore Street, London in 1889 and 1893; 68 Aldersgate, London in 1893 and 1914; 41 Campden Hill Court, Kensington, London in 1904; 2 Moore Street, Cadogan Square, London in 1914; 10 Gray's Inn Square, London in 1923; 30, John Street, Bedford Row in 1926; 39 Great James Street, Bedford Row, London in 1930; amd 16 Harpur Street, London in 1932. He died in London in 1933.
Godliman House. St Paul's, E.C.; Demerara House, St. Dunstan's Hill, E.C.; Bangor House. Shoe Lane. E.C.; Casion Foundry Building. Chiswell Street, E.C.: 25, 26, 27. Chiswell Street, E.C.; London A South Western Bank, Barbican, E.C.; the Littlestone Convalescent Home; whole of Farringdon Estate, comprising 30 office and warehouse buildings on old market site: Grand Hotel, Littlestone-on-Sea: St. Mary's Schools, Finchley: St. Paul's Parochial Hall, Finchley; Lay-out of Littlestone-on-Sea Estate, Kent; lay-out of Chiswick Park Estate, London, W. [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1914]
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Works:
Canada House, Little Britain, E.C.; Shanghai House, Botolph Lane, E.C.; Godliman House, St. Paul's, E.C.; Demerara House, St. Dunstan's Hill, E.C.; Bangor House, Shoe Lane, E.C.: Caslon Foundry Building, Chiswell Street, E.C.; London and South Western Banks, Barbican, E.C., and South Croydon, The Littlestone Convalescent House; Farringdon Estate (comprising 30 office and warehouse buildings); St. Mary's Schools and St. Paul's Parochial hall, Finchley, N.; assembly hall and houses, Littlestone-on-Sea; houses at Chiswlck, W.; Crouch End, N.; Colombes. France; Ronderbosh, S. Africa. Alterations and additions to "The Firs". Rustington; "Ellerncroft", Gloucestershire; "Beaulieu, Wimbledon, S.W.; "Nether Court", Finchley, N.; 35, Belgrave Square, W.; etc. War memorials at Cam; Charfield; Kingswood ; and Wotton-under-Edge, Glos. In course of erection: — studios, Glebe Place, Chelsea, S.W.; Barclays Bank, Sloane Square, S.W.; factory at Colombes, France; alterations and additions to "Gorelands, Chalfont, Bucks; and "Ellerncroft," Gloucestershire. Housing Scheme (flats), Hortensia Road, for the Chelsea Borough Council. [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1923]
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 2: L-Z. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
Who's Who in architecture 1914. London: Technical Journals Ltd., 1914
Who's Who in Architecture 1923. Edited by Frederick Chatterton. London: Architectural Press, 1923