Sir Joseph Beecham, 1st Baronet
- Sir Joseph Beecham, 1st Baronet
Sir Joseph Beecham, 1st Baronet (8 June 1848 - 23 October 1916) the eldest son of Thomas Beecham (1820-1907) played a large part in the growth and expansion of his father's medicinal pill business which he joined in 1866. Joseph was responsible for Beechams' factory and office in Westfield Street, St. Helens, being built in 1885. A factory was subsequently opened in New York followed by more factories and agencies in several other countries.
He married Josephine Burnett in 1873.
He was the proprietor of the Aldwych Theatre in London, a Justice of the Peace for Lancashire and was Mayor of St. Helens between 1889 and 1899 and again from 1910 to 1912.
He was made a baronet in 1912 and died on October 23, 1916. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Sir Thomas Beecham, who had been knighted in his own right earlier in 1916 for his services to music as an orchestral conductor.
He was invested as a Knight of the Order of St. Stanislaus of Russia.
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