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

Richard Burton contemplates the scene

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

View of the River Thames

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.