Caleb Whitefoord

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Caleb Whitefoord
FRS FRSE
Caleb Whitefoord, by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Born 1734
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died 25 January 1810
Argyll Street, London, England
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 (1734 – 25 January 1810) 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] In 1800, Whitefoord married 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.[1] He died at 28 Argyll Street, London, on 25 January 1810, and was interred at Paddington Churchyard.[2]

Works

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  • 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

  1. 1 2 The Complete Baronetage, vol. IV, 1665–1707, ed. G. E. Cokayne, William Pollard & Co., 1904, pg 401
  2. 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. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2006. Retrieved 22 March 2011.


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