Colonel Sir William Thomas Dupree, 1st Baronet, VD,TD,DL,JP (4 September 1856 – 2 March 1933) was an Englishbrewer.[1]
Dupree originally worked for the Reading-based H & G Simonds Brewery. In the early 1890s he became manager of the Simonds brewery in Portsmouth, 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 and was renamed Portsmouth and Brighton United Breweries Ltd, still with Dupree as chairman.[2]