Colonel Sir William Thomas Dupree, 1st Baronet (c.1856 – 2 March 1933) was an English

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 brewer

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.

Dupree originally worked for the Reading

Reading, Berkshire

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-based Simonds' Brewery

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. In the early 1890s he became manager of the Simonds brewery in Portsmouth

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, where he resided for the rest of his life. He later left to set up his own business, Portsmouth United Breweries. It became extremely successful and by the late 1920s was one of the largest breweries in Southern England. In 1927 it took over the Rock Brewery in Brighton

Brighton

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 and was renamed Portsmouth and Brighton United Breweries Ltd, still with Dupree as chairman.

Dupree served in the Volunteers

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, Territorial Force

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 and Territorial Army as an artillery

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 officer for over forty years. He was a justice of the peace

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 and alderman

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 in Portsmouth and served as mayor

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 three times, in 1901–1902, 1902–1903, and 1909–1910. He was mayor during the coronation

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 of Edward VII

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 and entertained naval officers from sixteen countries, for which he was knighted

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 in 1902. In the 1921 New Year Honours he was created a Baronet

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, largely due to his support for the Industrial League. He unsuccessfully contested Portsmouth Central

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 for the Conservative Party

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in 1918.