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Beechams, 1848-2000
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Contents List of tables vii Acknowledgements viii Abbreviations and chronologies xii Introduction 1 1 Not quite a Smilesian hero, 1820-1865 7 2 Britain's patent medicine industry in the nineteenth century 22 3 From workshop to factory, 1865-1882 40 4 New factory and bold marketing, 1882-1895 52 5 Beecham and the world of patent medicines 70 6 Machines and manpower in the firm 88 7 Into the twentieth century, 1895-1914 104 8 The Covent Garden estate, 1914-1916 119 9 In Chancery, 1916-1924 132 10 Beecham Estates and Pills Ltd, 1924-1928 147 11 The Beechams Pills company, 1928-1944 160 12 The Beecham Group adrift, 1944-1951 178 13 Lazell: creator of a pharmaceutical company, 1951-1968 194 14 Edwards and the bid for Glaxo, 1968-1975 211 15 From Wilkins to SmithKline Beecham, 1975-1988 228 16 Towards GlaxoSmithKline, 1988-2000 243 Epilogue 262 Appendices 1 Sir Thomas Beecham's ancestry 266 2 Thomas Beecham and the hymn books 272 Notes and references 275 Bibliography 302 Index 313

About the Author

After wartime seagoing services in the Royal Navy and a history degree at Oxford, Anthony Corley joined the Bank of England, being seconded in 1953-55 to the Central Bank of Iraq, Baghdad, to take charge of Iraq's currency. A subsequent research post at the Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge, was followed by lectureships in Economics at Queen's University, Belfast, and from 1962 onwards at Reading University. In between bringing up four children as a single parent, after his wife's premature death, he has published extensively on the history of the oil, consumer goods and pharmaceutical industries. He has also contributed nearly 100 entries, mostly on business leaders, to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). Currently a member of Reading's Centre for International Business History at the Henley Business School, in 2005 he was awarded an honorary D.Litt. by Reading University.

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