Whitbread, SAMUEL, born in 1758, a London brewer's son, from Eton passed to Oxford, and in 1790 entered parliament. Under Pitt he was leader of the opposition, and in 1805 headed the attack on Lord Melville. He was an intimate friend of Fox. He protested against the rupture of the peace of Amiens, and on Napoleon's escape from Elba denounced all interference with the French in their choice of a ruler. He died by his own hand when insane, 6th July 1815.
Whitbread, SAMUEL
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 639
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