Silas Burroughs, the Man who Made Wellcome

American Ambition and Global Enterprise
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-7188-9599-0
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 586 g

Reihe: Lutterworth Press

The first biography of the business brain behind Burroughs Wellcome & Co.

Silas Burroughs arrived in London from America in 1878 and proved himself an exceptional entrepreneur, taking the pharmaceutical business by storm. He was the brains and energy behind Burroughs Wellcome & Co. With his business partner Henry Wellcome he created an internationally successful firm, the legacy of which can be found in the charity the Wellcome Trust, yet few now remember him and the impact he made in his short lifetime.

A consummate salesman, Burroughs was also an astute businessman, with new ideas for marketing, advertising and manufacturing: his writings describe sales trips around the world and the people he met. He was also a visionary employer who supported the eight-hour working day, profit-sharing, and numerous social and radical political movements, including the single tax movement, free travel, Irish Home Rule and world peace. In this first biography of Burroughs, Julia Sheppard explores his American origins, his religion and marriage, and his philanthropic work, as well as re-evaluating the dramatic deterioration of his relationship with his partner Wellcome.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sheppard, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Burroughs Family Tree
Foreword: Sir Jeremy Farrar
Acknowledgements and Sources

Introduction

1. Father and Son
2. On the Road
3. London and S.M. Burroughs & Co.
4. Brotherly Love and Henry Wellcome
5. ‘A Little Excursion’
6. ‘A Superficial Jaunt’? India and Ceylon
7. The Antipodes
8. ‘This Lovely Opposite Sex’
9. ‘Bones of Contention’ and Brotherly Strains
10. Atlantic Crossings and Divided Lives
11. Partnership in Crisis: The High Court
12. Henry George and the Phoenix Mills Philosopher
13. Citizen of the World
14. Partnership in Peril
15. ‘Service to the Cause of People’: Philanthropy and the Livingstone Hospital
16. From London to Monte Carlo
17. Olive versus Wellcome

Postscript

Appendix: Pharmacy and Change
Notes
References and Bibliography
Index