Samuel Charles Whitbread [SEP] date of death
Samuel Charles Whitbread
Samuel Charles Whitbread (16 February 1796 – 27 May 1879) was a British Member of Parliament, member of the Whitbread brewing family and founding president of the Royal Meteorological Society.
Early life and education.
Whitbread was the son of Samuel Whitbread and Lady Elizabeth Grey. Grey was daughter of General Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey and sister of Prime Minister Charles Grey. He was educated at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge where he studied mathematics, moral philosophy and classics.
meteorological and astronomical phenomena.
On the 9 December 1815, months after his father's death, the principle gamekeeper Charles Dines at the family seat Southill Park was murdered by a poacher. Whitbread retained an interest in the welfare of Dines' family over many years. Three generations of distinguished meteorologists were descended from Dines including William Henry Dines and John Somers Dines.
Family.
Whitbread lived at the family seat Southill Park and in London. After his elder brother William Henry Whitbread died without heirs in 1867, Samuel Charles