Samuel Whitbread (politician, 1830)

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Samuel Whitbread caricature by Spy ( Leslie Ward ) from the Vanity Fair .

Samuel Whitbread ( May 5, 1830 - December 25, 1915 ) was a British politician.

Life

Samuel Whitbread was a son of Samuel Charles Whitbread and his first wife Juliana (nee Trevor; † October 13, 1858). He grew up with five siblings, two brothers and three sisters. He attended the Rugby School boarding school in the English county of Warwickshire , one of the most prestigious and oldest private schools in the country, and then Trinity College at the University of Cambridge .

Whitbread was Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant in the county of Bedfordshire . From 1852 to 1895 he represented the constituency of Bedford in the House of Commons . Several members of the Whitbread family had represented this constituency in the House of Commons in the past. From July 1859 to March 1863 Whitbread was Civil Lord in the Admiralty . In 1879 he became a partner in the brewery founded by his great-grandfather .

In 1855 he married Lady Isabella Charlotte Pelham (1836-1916), the daughter of Henry Pelham, 3rd Earl of Chichester . The marriage produced sons. His son Samuel Howard Whitbread later also became a Member of Parliament.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alumni Cantabrigienses , Part II. 1752–1900 VI. Square - Zupitza (1954)
  2. ^ DR Fisher [ed.]: Entry on Samuel Charles Whitbread in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832 (2009)
  3. ^ Lesley Richmond, Alison Turton [Eds.]: The Brewing Industry: A Guide to Historical Records (1990)
  4. ↑ a b Máire Fedelma Cross [Ed.]: Gender and Fraternal Orders in Europe, 1300-2000 (2000)
personal data
SURNAME Whitbread, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1830
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1915