1326 Samuel Whitbread

Constituency : Luton  1892-5, Huntingdon  1906-10

Samuel  took  over  at  Luton  when  Cyril  Flower  was  elevated  to  the  peerage.

Samuel  was  the  son  of  Samuel  Whitbread  the  brewer  and  still  the  MP   for  Bedford. In  time  he  became  managing  director  of  the  family  firm. He  stood  for  Bootle  in  1885  but  was  soundly  defeated.

Samuel  was  the  president  of  the  Bedfordshire  Education  Committee  and  saw  some  advantages  in  the  1902  Education  Act.

Samuel  spoke  against  the  People's  Budget  for  pushing  "  a  plausible principle  in  respect  of  land  taxation  to  extreme  and  dangerous  limits "  and  the  licensing  clauses  betrayed  "  a  vindictive  party  policy , which  appears  to  me  to  be  simply  shabby."

Samuel  stood  down  in   January  1910.

He  died  in  1944  aged  86.