Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet, CH (29 April 1879 – 8 March 1961) was an English conductor and impresario best known for his association with the London...
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Thomas Beecham (3 December 1820 – 6 April 1907) was a British businessman who founded Beechams, a large pharmaceutical business. In 1859, he focused on...
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The Beecham Group plc was a British pharmaceutical company. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. Founded by Thomas Beecham who opened the first...
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John Beecham (1787–1856), English Wesleyan writer Sir Joseph Beecham, 1st Baronet (1848–1916), eldest son of Thomas Beecham the chemist Thomas Beecham (1879–1961)...
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Beecham's Pills were a laxative first marketed about 1842 in Wigan, Lancashire. They were invented by Thomas Beecham (1820–1907), grandfather of the conductor...
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British symphony orchestra based in London. The RPO was established by Thomas Beecham in 1946. In its early days, the orchestra secured profitable recording...
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GSK plc (redirect from SmithKline Beecham)
Far East. In 1848, Thomas Beecham launched his Beecham's Pills laxative in England, giving birth to the Beecham Group. In 1859, Beecham opened its first...
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thirteen in all − between then and 1946. Six were conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, whom Henderson admired, although finding himself instinctively more...
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long relationships with the novelist George Moore and the conductor Thomas Beecham, and was the muse of the former and a champion of and fund-raiser for...
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The Wreckers (opera) (section Beecham)
in a German translation, with cuts, before being championed by Sir Thomas Beecham and given performances in 1909 in London, now in an English translation...
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