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Updated: May 22, 2025

He was able to supply men like Brougham, like Fowell Buxton, and like Whitbread with practical facts beyond dispute to establish the realities of slavery in the West Indian colonies.

Justin McCarthy - A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV

Pitt and the rest of that Ministry, in the month of March, 1801. This same Henry Dundas, who was again brought into place by Mr. Pitt, and put in greater power than ever, was, on the 8th of April, 1805, degraded by a censure of the House of Commons, inflicted by a solemn vote, on the motion of Mr. Whitbread, who brought the affair before them with great manliness, ability, and perseverance.

Henry Hunt - Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2

The Indians will get clean away; they're most to the Pamunkey by now, I reckon." Landless staggered to his feet, and put his hand to his head, which was bleeding. "The women are all safe?" he demanded. "All but poor Annis," said the boy. "When I saw the poor maid fall, I thanked the Lord that Joyce Whitbread was safe in her mother's cottage at Banbury. But none of the others were hurt.

Mary Johnston - Prisoners of Hope: A Tale of Colonial Virginia

Whitbread supported that same Sheridan afterwards against Lord COCHRANE; and though Mr. Whitbread is so ready to subscribe now, he refused to subscribe to the election of Sir Francis Burdett, notwithstanding the election was in a city of which he was an inhabitant and an elector. These, Gentlemen, are facts, of which you should be apprised; otherwise names might deceive you.

Henry Hunt - Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2

Brown had not only failed to follow his friend's advice, but, relying upon some other information, had actually neglected to lay in the usual stock for the house of Whitbread & Co. Mr. Waddington, rather piqued at the slight put upon his judgment by his friend Brown, and elated with his own success, sent Mr.

Henry Hunt - Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1

The public were greatly indebted to Mr. Whitbread for his exposure of these delinquencies in Parliament; but they were much more indebted to Mr.

Henry Hunt - Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2

Of the estimation in which Whitbread was held by his neighbours, even after he had ceased to represent them in Parliament, the present writer once heard a ludicrous, but illuminating, instance. Among the men sentenced to death after the Jameson Raid was one connected by ties of family with Bedford.

George William Erskine Russell - Prime Ministers and Some Others: A Book of Reminiscences

Whitbread in his brewery like the Jerusalem coffee-house? Because He-brews drink therein. A caterpillar, which the Indians name sustillo, and by which a paper is fabricated, very similar to that made in China, is bred in the pacae, a tree well known in Peru.

Various - The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction : Volume 17, No. 490, May 21, 1831

Whitbread. Amongst the number was a censure upon the High Sheriff, for his delay in calling the meeting, and his gross negligence in being absent from the county at such an important period. It was here that, for the first time, I addressed my brother freeholders at a county meeting. Mr.

Henry Hunt - Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2

Whitbread highly approved of the object of the worthy Baronet, which was to diminish the sufferings of an unoffending people.

Thomas Clarkson - The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Volume I