Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome FRS (August 21, 1853 – July 25, 1936) was an American-born 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. In addition, 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 also a keen collector of medical artefacts which are now displayed at the Wellcome Collection.
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Henry Solomon Wellcome 21 August 1853 Almond, Wisconsin, U.S.
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Died |
25 July 1936 (aged 82) London, England
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Zodiac | Leo |
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