Corporate London; Whitbread plc; 1742-; brewers and hoteliers DS/UK/P/3231 Whitbread plc 1742- brewers and hoteliers London

Found 1742 by Samuel Whitbread, in partnership with Godfrey and Thomas Shewell. By the 1780s it had become the largest brewery company in the world, and in 1799 adopted the name Whitbread & Co Ltd. Yes International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Derbyshire Record Office Collections Manual Section 7 v5.1 (May 2020) DERBYSHIRE\a7005277 31/12/2021 1af305c9-993e-47bb-8649-7e149039f2fc