This revolutionary lightweight design went on to win the Whitbread Round the World race in 1989 / 90.

It won the Whitbread Book of the Year award ( 1980 ), and went straight into paperback in Penguin Books in 1981.

The tale of a British deserter in China at the time of the Cultural Revolution, Something Like A House won critical praise and went on to win both the James Tait Black Award and the Whitbread First Novel Award.

Whitbread acquired the brand in the 1920s and gave it national distribution, eventually turning it into the market leader for a low abv sweet dark beer.

Managing director of Whitbread, Miles Templeman, explained that: We were thinking how to turn a second-rate north-west brand into something more stylish, to make it more appealing again.

It won the Whitbread Book Of The Year Award for 1997 and has been translated into several languages.

Whitbread announced the closure of the chain, by converting many of the former premises into other Whitbread-owned brands, including the steak-orientated Beefeater or more generalised pub-orientated Brewers Fayre.

On 16 March 2011, Whitbread was called into the United States camp for its friendlies against Argentina and Paraguay, but was unable to feature due to sustaining an injury while on club duty.

It was translated into many languages ( 17 by 2004 ) and secured his reputation in Europe, as well as being shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award.

On January 17, 2007, Whitbread sold operating rights of all 45 restaurants back to TGI Friday's UK Limited ( a consortium consisting of Carlson Restaurants Worldwide Inc. and ABN Amro Capital ) thus exiting a partnership formed in 1986.

Due to Leon Barnett's hamstring injury, Whitbread developed a centre back partnership with Elliott Ward.

Whitbread was founded by Samuel Whitbread and Thomas Shewell, who established a partnership in 1742.

Her distinctive colours of blue with buff stripes were carried by horses such as Special Cargo, the winner of the 1984 Whitbread Gold Cup, and Devon Loch, which spectacularly halted just short of the winning post at the 1956 Grand National and whose jockey Dick Francis later had a successful career as the writer of racing-themed detective stories.

Heaney's prize-winning translation of Beowulf ( Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000, Whitbread Book of the Year Award ) was seen as ground-breaking in its use of modern language melded with the original Anglo-Saxon ' music '.

Whitbread began to suffer from depression, and on the morning of 6 July 1815, he committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor.

Many of the selections have been extremely prescient, with at least 12 of those listed either winning or being short-listed for major literary awards such as the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize.

Thomas Whitbread took a much firmer line with Oates than had Strange and, in June 1678, expelled him from St. Omer.

Following this discovery, the midshipmen, Jonathon Whitbread, Horst Staley, and Gavin Potter, are reunited with Whitbread's Fyunch ( click ) Mediator escort, who reveals the self-destructive character underlying Motie society.

In the diaspora, Hanif Kureshi commenced a prolific career with the novel The Buddha of Suburbia ( 1990 ), which won the Whitbread Award, and Aamer Hussein wrote a series of acclaimed short story collections.

Other notable novels include Strike the Father Dead ( 1962 ), a tale of a jazzman's rebellion against his conventional father, and Young shoulders ( 1982 ), winner of the Whitbread Prize, the tale of a young boy dealing with the death of loved ones.

Other conversions of oasts for non-residential purposes include a theatre ( Oast Theatre, Tonbridge, Oast house Theatre Rainham, a Youth Hostel ( Capstone Farm, Rochester, another at Lady Margaret Manor, Doddington – now a residential centre for people with learning difficulties ), a school ( Sturry ), a visitor centre ( Bough Beech reservoir ) offices ( Tatlingbury Farm, Five Oak Green and a museum ( Kent Museum of Rural Life, Sandling, Preston Street, Faversham, Wye College, Wye and the former Whitbread Hop Farm at Beltring.

With the introduction of sponsorship ( starting with the Whitbread Gold Cup in 1957 ), a whole host of other important races have been added to the National Hunt racing season, although many of these are geared towards generating betting turnover in the form of competitive handicaps that attract large numbers of runners.

His third collection, Competing with the Piano Tuner, was a Poetry Book Society special commendation and long-listed for the Whitbread Poetry Prize in 1998 ; his fourth, To the God of Rain, a Poetry Book Society recommendation for Spring 2003.

His first novel, Blue Burneau ( 1994 ), was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Prize and the book Moon Country, published in 1996, describes a visit to Iceland with Simon Armitage.

Sanderson was the UK's leading javelin thrower from the mid-1970s, winning silver in the 1978 European championships and gold in the Commonwealth Games three times ( 1978, 1986, 1990 ), but was eclipsed during the 1980s by the up-and-coming Fatima Whitbread, with whom she shared a long standing rivalry.

This tradition of poetry continues to the present time with Bernard O ' Donoghue now a lecturer in Oxford University winning the prestigious Whitbread prize for a collection of poems in 1993 / 94.

Along with nine others, including James Glaisher, John Drew, Edward Joseph Lowe, The Revd Joseph Bancroft Reade, and Samuel Charles Whitbread, Dr John Lee, an astronomer, of Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire founded in the library of his house the British Meteorological Society, which became the Royal Meteorological Society.

He was also a watch captain on Steinlager II with Peter Blake when she won the 1989-90 Whitbread Round The World Race and skipper of a Whitbread 60 ( later Volvo Ocean 60 ) class boat in the 1993 / 1994 race where he was associated with Dennis Conner and Tom Whidden.

The practicality of training people who had never sailed before was demonstrated during the 1973 / 74 Whitbread Race, when Blyth had raced Great Britain II with a crew from the Parachute Regiment.

After losing his wife Gilpin resided for some time with his friend Samuel Whitbread in Bedfordshire.

His books have been critically acclaimed, with his most recent work, My Heart is My Own: the Life of Mary Queen of Scots, being awarded the 2004 Whitbread Biography Award.

Whitbread returned to full training near Christmas 2010, along with Adam Drury.

( 1767 – 1828 ), Flag Captain under Admiral Jervis, Flag Captain of King George III's Royal Yacht ( 1801-4 ) and Commissioner of Sheerness Dockyard ( 1804-6 ) & Portsmouth Dockyard ( 1806 – 28 ), married Mary Whitbread, daughter of Samuel Whitbread ( 1720-1796 ), whose sons: Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet ( 1799 – 1882 ) was a British Statesman and Home Secretary, and Charles Samuel Grey, Paymaster of Civil Service in Ireland ; and daughters: Mary married Capt Thomas Monck Mason, Elizabeth married Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough, Harriet married Revd John Jenkinson, Hannah Jean married Sir Henry Thompson, 3rd Baronet, Jane married Francis Baring,

His grandparents included Alexander Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore, Lady Catherine Herbert, Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester, and Lady Juliana Whitbread.

Novels for children include: The Dolphin Crossing, Fireweed, Babylon, Hengest's Tale, A Parcel of Patterns, Birdy and the Ghosties, Grace, Thomas and the Tinners, The Green Book, Goldengrove and its sequel Unleaving ( Boston Globe / Horn Book prize for fiction, 1976 ), Gaffer Samson's Luck ( Smarties Prizewinner 1985 ) and The Emperor's Winding Sheet ( Whitbread Children's Prizewinner 1974 ).

Five years later Whitbread bought out Shewell for £ 30, 000.

In 1742, he established a brewery that in 1799 became Whitbread & Co Ltd.

The chain was sold to Grand Metropolitan for £ 14. 5m in 1970 and then sold to Whitbread in 1995.

On 17 January 2007 Whitbread announced that the franchise rights for TGI Friday's were being sold to a joint venture between Carlson Restaurants Worldwide Inc and ABN AMRO Capital for £ 70. 4m.

On 4 July 2007, Whitbread announced that it had conditionally agreed to sell the David Lloyd Leisure chain to Versailles Bidco Limited for £ 925 million.

In July 2006, it purchased 239 pub restaurants ( Beefeater and Brewers Fayre without a Premier Inn ) from Whitbread for £ 497 million to strengthen its food business ahead of the introduction of a smoking ban in enclosed public spaces in England in 2007.