Ancestral Trails 2016 » Samuel WHITBREAD (1720-1796)

Persoonlijke gegevens Samuel WHITBREAD 

• Hij is geboren op 20 augustus 1720 in Cardington, Bedfordshire.
• Beroep: in het jaar 1742 Established the Whitbread Brewery in London.
• Hij is overleden op 11 juni 1796 in Southill Park, Southill, Bedfordshire, hij was toen 75 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Henry Whitbread en Elizabeth Reed

Gezin van Samuel WHITBREAD

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Mary CORNWALLIS.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1769, hij was toen 48 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Mary WHITBREAD  1770-1858 

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Harriet Haydon.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 6 juli 1757 te St Clement Danes, The Strand, Westminster, Middlesex, hij was toen 36 jaar oud.Bron 1

Kind(eren):

1. Harriet Whitbread  1758-????
2. Emma Maria Elizabeth Whitbread  1761-????
3. Samuel WHITBREAD  1764-1815 

Notities over Samuel WHITBREAD

Samuel Whitbread (30 August 1720 - 11 June 1796) was an English brewer and Member of Parliament. In 1742, he established a brewery that in 1799 became Whitbread & Co Ltd.

Samuel Whitbread was born at Cardington in Bedfordshire, the seventh of eight children. He left for London aged 14 and became an apprentice to a London brewer, John Witman.

Whitbread became very rich and bought Lord Torrington's Southill Park, Elstow Manor, and other substantial property. When he died on 11 June 1796, The Gentleman's Magazine speculated that he was "worth over a million pounds" (equivalent to £90,230,000 in 2016).

Brewery
Whitbread went into partnership with Thomas Shewell in 1742, investing £2,600 in two of Shewell's small breweries, the Goat Brewhouse (where porter was produced) and a brewery in Brick Lane (used to produce pale and amber beers).

Demand for the strong, black porter meant the business had to move to larger premises in Chiswell Street in 1750. Starting over, Whitbread invested in all the latest technology to industrialize production, storing the beer in large vats. The brewery was also one of the first to employ a steam engine (purchasing a sun and planet gear engine, the Whitbread Engine, from James Watt's company in 1785).

By 1760, it had become the second largest brewery in London (producing almost 64,000 barrels annually). Five years later Whitbread bought out Shewell for £30,000. By the end of the century, Whitbread's business was London's biggest producer of beer, producing 202,000 barrels in 1796.

In May 1787 the brewery was visited by King George III and Queen Charlotte.

Member of Parliament
Whitbread was appointed High Sheriff of Hertfordshire for 1767-68 and elected Member of Parliament for Bedford in 1768, and held the seat until 1790, and then represented Steyning from 1792 to 1796. He was an early supporter for the abolition of slavery, took part in some of the anti-slavery debates of 1788 in the House of Commons and introduced a minimum wage bill to the House in 1795, which was rejected by then Prime Minister William Pitt.

Family
Whitbread married firstly Harriet Hayton, by whom he had two daughters, one of whom, Emma Maria Elizabeth Whitbread, married Henry St John, 13th Baron St John of Bletso, and one son, the politician, Samuel Whitbread. The other daughter, Harriet, married James Gordon MP.

He married secondly Lady Mary Cornwallis (1736-70), by whom he had one daughter, Mary Whitbread (1770-1858), who married Sir George Grey, 1st Baronet, 3rd son of Charles Grey, Lord Howick.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Whitbread_(1720%E2%80%931796)

Samuel Whitbread [1720-1796] was born in Cardington, the seventh of eight children. At 14 he was sent to London to become apprentice to a brewer, John Witman and in 1742 went into partnership on his own account with a Thomas Shewell; they had two breweries but consolidated on a site in Chiswell Street in 1750. In 1752 Whitbread bought property in Potton.

In 1765 Whitbread bought Shewell out and by 1800 the brewery was the largest in London. Due to his success Samuel Whitbread was able to enter politics, being elected Member of Parliament for Bedford in 1768, a seat he held until 1790.

In the year before his death Samuel Whitbread bought Southill Park, a 17th century house, remodelled by George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington and later members of the Byng family. He also bought land in Old Warden from 1773 and purchased Elstow Manor in 1792 and other land in Elstow between 1792 and 1796.

Samuel Whitbread's son, another Samuel [1758-1815] is probably the most well known member of the family. He was born in Cardington and entered the family brewing business in 1786. He entered parliament as member for Bedford, his father's old seat, in 1790. Whereas his father had been a Tory, Samuel junior was a Whig. In 1800 he exchanged land acquired in Old Warden between 1783 and 1799 with the 2nd Baron Ongley for Ongley land in Southill . Between 1796 and 1804 he bought land in Wilshamstead. He purchased land in Bedford, Saint Mary in 1799

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