Samuel Whitbread (5 May 1830 – 25 December 1915) was an English brewer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1852 to 1895.

[2] He was private secretary to Sir George Grey in 1850 and in 1852 was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedford.

He was a frequent speaker during his time in the commons and was Civil Lord of the Admiralty from June 1859 to March 1863.

Maud married her cousin Charles, son of Samuel's younger brother William.

Francis married Ida, daughter of Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley, and lived at Burford House, Tenbury Wells.