Caleb Whitefoord
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| Caleb Whitefoord FRS FRSE | |
|---|---|
 Caleb Whitefoord, by Sir Joshua Reynolds | |
| Born |
1734 Edinburgh |
| Died |
25 January 1810 Argyll Street, London |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Citizenship | Great Britain |
| Alma mater | Edinburgh University |
| Notable work | Secretary to the commission which concluded peace between Great Britain and the United States at Paris, 1782 |
Caleb Whitefoord FRS FRSE RSA (Edinburgh 1734 – 25 January 1810 London) was a Scottish merchant, diplomat, and political satirist.
Born in Edinburgh in 1734, the illegitimate son of Colonel Charles (James) Whitefoord of the Royal Marines (son of Sir Adam Whitefoord, 1st Baronet),[1] he was educated at James Mundell's School and Edinburgh University.[2]
He moved to London, and in 1756 became a wine merchant.[2]
In 1782 he served as Lord Shelburne's envoy to Benjamin Franklin on the Peace Commission at Paris.[2]
In 1784 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and in 1788, upon the proposal of Robert Arbuthnot, Sir William Forbes and Alexander Fraser Tytler he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[2] Whitefoord married, in 1800, a Miss Craven, and had issue, amongst whom an eldest son, Rev. Caleb Whitefoord, M.A. (Oxon.), rector of Burford with Whitton, Herefordshire, had five sons.[3] He died at 28 Argyll Street, London, on 25 January 1810, and was interred at Paddington Churchyard.[2]
Works
- Whitefoord, Caleb (1781). The daily advertiser, in metre. G. Keasly.
- Whitefoord, Caleb (1799). Advice to Editors of Newspapers. ISBN 978-1-140-69119-8.
Co-authored
- Dobson, Austin; Whitefoord, Caleb (1896). A postscript to Dr. Goldsmith's retaliation: being an epitaph on Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
- Whitefoord, Charles; Whitefoord, Caleb (1898). William Albert Samuel Hewins, ed. The Whitefoord papers: being the correspondence and other manuscripts of Colonel Charles Whitefoord and Caleb Whiteford, from 1739 to 1810. Clarendon Press. p. 292. - Charles Whitefoord served in Wynyard's (4th Marines), Gooch's, and the 5th Marines in the 1740s.
References
- ↑ The Complete Baronetage, vol. IV, 1665-1707, ed. G. E. Cokayne, William Pollard & Co., 1904, pg 401
- 1 2 3 4 5 Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index (PDF). II. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
- ↑ The Complete Baronetage, vol. IV, 1665-1707, ed. G. E. Cokayne, William Pollard & Co., 1904, pg 401