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Wellcome, Henry S. (Henry Solomon), Sir, 1853-1936

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Personal name headingWellcome, Henry S. (Henry Solomon), Sir, 1853-1936
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Variant(s)Wellcome, H. S. (Henry Solomon), Sir, 1853-1936
Wellcome, Henry, Sir, 1853-1936
Wellcome, Henry Solomon, Sir, 1853-1936
Associated countryUnited States England
Associated placeLondon (England)
Birth date1853-08-21
Death date1936-07-25
Place of birthAlmond (Wis.)
Place of deathLondon (England)
Profession or occupationBusinesspeople
Collectors Book collectors
Found inFitzwilliam Museum. The Wellcome gems : a Fitzwilliam Museum catalogue, 1983: CIP title page (Wellcome)
Phone call to University of Cambridge Press, July 7, 1983 (Sir Henry Wellcome)
LC manual authority card (hdg.: Wellcome, Sir Henry Solomon, 1853-1936; usage: Henry S. Wellcome)
The story of Metlakahtla, 1887: title page (Henry S. Wellcome)
England, Joseph W. The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and its founder, 1928?: page 745, etc. (Henry S. Wellcome)
The Wellcome centenary, 1953: page 2 (Sir Henry S. Wellcome) page 3 (Sir Henry Wellcome) page 5, etc. (Henry S. Wellcome) page 7 (H.S. Wellcome)
Turner, Helen. Henry Wellcome, 1980: title page (Henry Wellcome)
English Wikipedia, viewed May 6, 2021 (Henry Wellcome; Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome FRS; born August 21, 1853, in Almond, Wisconsin; died July 25, 1936, in Marylebone, London; American-born British pharmaceutical entrepreneur; he founded the pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Company with his colleague Silas Burroughs in 1880; his company eventually merged with others to form GlaxoSmithKline; he is also known as the founder of the Wellcome Collection, housed at the Wellcome Library in London)
Associated languageeng