Samuel Whitbread (Lord Lieutenant)

Sir Samuel Charles Whitbread, KCVO (born 1937) is a British businessman and public servant.

Born in 1937 to Major Simon Whitbread, he joined the board of Whitbread Plc in 1972 and became its chairman in 1984; he stepped down from the chair eight years later and from the board in 2001. He has been chairman of Whitbread Farms Ltd since 1985 and was also a director of Whitbread Investments and Sun Alliance.[1]

Outside of business, Whitbread became a magistrate for Bedfordshire in 1969, served as High Sheriff for the 1973–74 year, and in 1974 was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant and returned as a County Councillor (serving on the council until 1982). He was also chairman and later president of the Mid-Bedfordshire Conservative Association. From 1991 to 2012, Whitbread was also Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire,[1] during which time he received three royal visits[2] and two honorary doctorates. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1994 and of the Society of Antiquaries in 2007.[1] In 2012, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.[3]

References
  1. "Whitbread, Sir Samuel (Charles)", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  2. Jim Stewart, "Sir Samuel Whitbread: 21 years as Bedfordshire’s Lord Lieutenant", Bedford Today, 8 April 2012. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  3. Supplement to the London Gazette, 12 June 2010 (issue 59446), p. 3
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