HENRY WELLCOMBE

Roert Rhodes James

ISBN 10: 0340606177 / ISBN 13: 9780340606179

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1994

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This copy is in as new, unmarked condition bound in green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling toa black panel on the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in as new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This biography of Henry Wellcome, the founder of the Wellcome Trust - the largest benefactor ever to British medical research - is a story of achievement and disappointment. He was born into poverty in 1853 and died in 1936 as a greatly honoured millionaire. Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (21 August 1853 ? 25 July 1936) was an American and British pharmaceutical entrepreneur. He founded the pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Company with his colleague Silas Burroughs in 1880, which is one of the four large companies to eventually merge to form GlaxoSmithKline. He left a large amount of capital for charitable work in his will, which was used to form the Wellcome Trust, one of the world's largest medical charities. He was a keen collector of medical artefacts which are now managed by the Science Museum, London, and a small selection of which are displayed at the Wellcome Collection. Ref LLL 3.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: HENRY WELLCOMBE
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, London
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340606177
• ISBN 13: 9780340606179
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Synopsis

This biography of Henry Wellcome, the founder of the Wellcome Trust - the largest benefactor ever to British medical research - is a story of achievement and disappointment. He was born into poverty in 1853 and died in 1936 as a greatly honoured millionaire.