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date: 27 February 2021

Beecham, Sir Joseph, first baronetlocked

(1848–1916)
  • T. A. B. Corley

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Beecham, Sir Joseph, first baronet (1848–1916), manufacturer of patent medicines, was born at Wigan on 8 June 1848. He was the eldest of the family of two sons and two daughters of Thomas Beecham (1820–1907), founder of Beecham's pills, and his first wife, ...

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