Samuel Whitbread, English politician Size:S: 36 x 28cm Richard Burton contemplates the scene

Richard Burton contemplates the scene

View of the River Thames

and a longitudinal section of the stomach of the blue shark caught at Hastings and purchased by Colonel Bothwell of the Scotch Greys

Henry Clarke Corbin

The Club was pro-Cromwell and on 30th January 1734 its provocative actions so infuriated people that they stoned the inn where the members were meeting

Samuel Whitbread, English politician Size:S: 36 x 28cm Richard Burton contemplates the sceneSamuel Whitbread, English politician, 19th century. Whitbread (1758 1815), a member of the successful brewing family, campaigned for the abolition of slavery, and was a proponent of a national education system. In 1815 Whitbread began to suffer from depression, and in June of that year he committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor.