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SAMUEL WHITBREAD (1758-1815)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 598 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMUEL See also:WHITBREAD (1758-1815)  , See also:English politician, came of a See also:Bedfordshire See also:Nonconformist See also:family; his See also:father had made a considerable See also:fortune as owner of the well-known brewery associated with his name . Educated at See also:Eton and St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge (after originally going to See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford), he began by entering the See also:brewing business; but after his See also:marriage with the daughter of the 1st See also:Earl See also:Grey in 1789 he took to politics, and in 1790 was elected for Bedfordshire as a Whig, attaching himself to See also:Fox . He became known as a social and See also:financial reformer and a See also:constant assailant in See also:parliament of all sorts of abuses . It was on his See also:motion in 1805 that See also:Lord See also:Melville was impeached for financial maladministration of the See also:navy, and he conducted the See also:case for the See also:prosecution . His Poor See also:Law See also:bill in 1807, an elaborate See also:Radical See also:scheme, came to nothing . See also:Whitbread continued to be a constant See also:speaker in parliament, and the See also:principal representative of Liberal See also:criticism, a See also:monument of opposition See also:tactics . He opposed the regency, championed the princess of See also:Wales, and led the See also:peace party; and the caricaturists were busy with his See also:personality . In 1809 he became chairman of the See also:committee for rebuilding See also:Drury See also:Lane See also:theatre, and for some See also:time he was immersed in controversies connected with it, which eventually seem to have unstrung his mind, for he committed See also:suicide on the 6th of See also:July 1815 . The Whitbread See also:influence in Liberal politics continued to be very strong in Bedfordshire in later generations, his son See also:William See also:Henry (from 1818 to 1837) and See also:grandson See also:Samuel (from 1852 to 1895) representing See also:Bedford for many years .

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