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Whitbread is a British multinational hotel and restaurant company headquartered in Houghton Regis, England.The business was founded as a brewery in 1742 by Samuel Whitbread in partnership with Godfrey and Thomas Shewell, with premises in London at the junction of Old Street and Upper Whitecross Street, along with a brewery in Brick Lane, Spitalfields.
Early life. Whitbread was born on 18 January 1764 in Cardington, Bedfordshire, the son of the brewer Samuel Whitbread. [1] He was educated at Eton College, Christ Church, Oxford, and St John's College, Cambridge, [2] after which he embarked on a European "Grand Tour", visiting Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Prussia, France, and Italy.
Samuel Whitbread Academy is an Upper School and Sixth Form with Academy status serving the rural communities around the small market town of Shefford in Central Bedfordshire. Its school campus includes a nursery school and facilities for adult education . The school has recently won the schools national vase at Twickenham.
His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights (1995; published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000). It follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes.
Fatima Whitbread. Fatima Whitbread, MBE ( née Vedad; born 3 March 1961) is a British retired javelin thrower. She broke the world record with a throw of 77.44 m ( 254 ft 3⁄4 in) in the qualifying round of the 1986 European Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, and became the first British athlete to set a world record in a throwing event.
Samuel Whitbread was born on 20 August 1720 at Cardington in Bedfordshire, the seventh of eight children of Henry Whitbread. [2] At 12, he received two years' education with a local clergyman, before being sent at age 14 to London to live with family (most likely, his uncle). [2]
Managerial career. 1988–1990. Runcorn. 1996–1998. Singapore. *Club domestic league appearances and goals. Barry Whitbread (born c. 1949) [2] is an English former football player and coach who led the Singapore national football team to the country's first ever international trophy in football, the 1998 AFF Championship .
The last time that much ice had melted in the region occurred over a period of 30 years, between 1960 and 1990, according a news release from the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences.