The Volvo Ocean Race began in 1973, known then as the Whitbread.
Norman Lebrecht won the Whitbread First Novel Award for The Song of Names.
Johnston won the Whitbread for The Old Jest and her Shadows on Our Skin was short-listed for the Booker.
It did, however, win the Costa Book of the Year, formerly the Whitbread.
Whitbread was obnoxious to Stephen as a radical and as an opponent of the Orders in Council.
The monument erected by Whitbread marks, as near as possible, the place.
As Whitbread pointed out, the increase of large farms at the expense of the little men led to the holding back of the new corn.
Mr. Whitbread and a committee erected the house, and purchased the old patent rights, by means of a subscription of 400,000.
It was a favourite remark of the late Mr. Whitbread's, that no man does any thing from a single motive.
