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Sir Joseph Beecham, 1st Baronet (8 June 1848 – 23 October 1916) was a British businessman. Beecham was the eldest son of Thomas Beecham and Jane Evans. He played a large part in the growth and expansion of his father's medicinal pill business which he joined in 1866.
Beecham, Sir Joseph, first baronet ( 1848–1916 ), manufacturer of patent medicines, was born at Wigan on 8 June 1848. He was the eldest of the family of two sons and two daughters of Thomas Beecham (1820–1907), founder of Beecham's pills, and his first wife, Jane Evans (1811/12–1872).
The Beecham Baronetcy, of Ewanville in the Parish of Huyton in the County Palatine of Lancaster, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 17 July 1914 for the Lancashire pill manufacturer Joseph Beecham.
Under Sir Joseph Beecham, 1st Baronet (1848-1916) the business expanded but the company remained focussed on patent medicines and engaged little in research. 1913 Production of Beecham's Pills laxative reached one million a day.
Family name: Beecham _____ Arms: Per fess Gules and Sable a Fess nebuly plain cotised in chief an Escallop between two Martlets and in base the like all Or. Crest: Between two Escallops Or a Swan's Head erased Argent holding in the Beak Gules a like escallop Gold. Motto: Nil Sine Labore (Nothing without labour) _____ Sir Joseph Beecham, 1st Bt ...
Under Sir Joseph Beecham, 1st Baronet (1848-1916), son of Thomas, the business expanded but remainded a patent medicine company and engaged in little research. Beecham bought companies for various products, adding the Lucozade glucose drink and Macleans toothpaste to its product chain in 1938.
Beecham 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, of Ewanville in the Parish of Huyton in the County Palatine of Lancaster, in 1914.
