Henry Wellcome
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Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome was an American and British pharmaceutical entrepreneur. He founded the pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Company with his colleague Silas Burroughs in 1880, which
Henry Wellcome in 1930
Wellcome family portrait, c. 1875–1877. Henry standing left. Unknown photographer. The Wellcome Collection, London
Henry Wellcome in 1880
Henry Wellcome and his wife Syrie, c. 1902. Unknown photographer. The Wellcome Collection, London
Syrie Maugham
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Gwendoline Maud Syrie Maugham was a leading British interior decorator of the 1920s and 1930s who popularised rooms decorated entirely in white.
Henry Wellcome
…Wellcome consolidated all his commercial and non-commercial activities in one holding company, The Wellcome Foundation Ltd. In 1901, Wellcome married Gwendoline Maud Syrie Barnardo, a daughter of orphanage founder Thomas John Barnardo who was 26 years his junior. They had one child, Henry Mounteney Wellcome, born 1903, who was…
Gwendoline Syrie Maud Wellcome (née Barnardo). Photo from 1901.
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