List of Famous people with last name Wellcome

Henry Solomon Wellcome

Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome
First Name Henry
Last Name Wellcome
Born on August 21, 1853
Died on July 25, 1936 (aged 82)

Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome was an American 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 displayed at the Wellcome Collection.

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