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Samuel Whitbread Academy is an Upper School and Sixth Form with Academy status serving the rural communities around the small market town of Shefford in Central Bedfordshire. Its school campus includes a nursery school and facilities for adult education. The school has recently won the schools national vase at Twickenham.
Whitbread is a British multinational hotel and restaurant company headquartered in Houghton Regis, England.The business was founded as a brewery in 1742 by Samuel Whitbread in partnership with Godfrey and Thomas Shewell, with premises in London at the junction of Old Street and Upper Whitecross Street, along with a brewery in Brick Lane, Spitalfields.
Whitbread Round the World Race, former name of the Volvo Ocean Race sailing race Whitbread 60, a class of racing designed for this race, now known as the Volvo Ocean 60; Whitbread Book Awards, former name of the Costa Book Awards; Samuel Whitbread Academy, a school; Whitbread Engine, one of the first rotative steam engines
Shefford is served by secondary school Samuel Whitbread Academy, [28] middle school Robert Bloomfield Academy, [29] Shefford Lower School, Shefford Nursery, BEST nursery and Acorn Pre-School & The Mighty Oaks.
Samuel Whitbread (Liberal politician), his son, British Member of Parliament for Luton, 1892–1895, and Huntingdon, 1906–1910 Sir Samuel Whitbread (businessman, born 1937) (1937–2023), his grandson, former chairman of Whitbread & Co. and Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire
The school was established in 1974. In 2007 a house-based approach to student support was developed which includes "vertical" tutor groups, meaning that form groups have a mix of ages which encourages students to have stronger relationships with other members of the school, not exclusively their own year.
Sir Samuel Charles Whitbread KCVO DL JP (22 February 1937 – 17 January 2023) was a British businessman and public servant. Born in London on 22 February 1937 to Major Simon Whitbread, [1] he joined the board of Whitbread Plc in 1972 and became its chairman in 1984. [2] He stepped down from the chair eight years later and from the board in 2001.
Samuel Whitbread was born on 20 August 1720 at Cardington in Bedfordshire, the seventh of eight children of Henry Whitbread. [2] At 12, he received two years' education with a local clergyman, before being sent at age 14 to London to live with family (most likely, his uncle). [ 2 ]