biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1758–1815)
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| biography:
| British politician, the son of the founder of the famous brewing firm Samuel Whitbread (1720–96). From Eton he passed to Oxford, and in 1790 entered parliament. The intimate friend of Fox, under Pitt he was Leader of the Opposition, and in 1805 headed the attack on Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville (1742–1811) over charges of corruption. |
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