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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.
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.
Price: $36.95
Pages: 344
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Lutterworth Press
Publication Date:
25 August 2022
Trim Size: 5.98 X 8.98 in
ISBN: 9780718895990
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, Biography: science, technology and medicine, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, European history
For too long, Silas Burroughs has stood in the shadows of his partner, Henry Wellcome. In this insightful and revealing book Julia Sheppard does a superb job of redressing the balance, revealing Burroughss childhood and education, and his increasingly difficult relationship with Wellcome. Based on extensive original research, this is a beautifully written and entertaining biography.
— Stuart Anderson, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacy History, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Besides a thoroughly engaging story of the American-born entrepreneur, manuf\-acturer and advertising innovator, Julia Sheppard has also given us an important and fascinating insight into the history of the British drug industry and the making of a global pharmaceutical market. This is biography at its very best.
— John Harley Warner, Avalon Professor of the History of Medicine, Yale University
Julia Sheppard has written the definitive biography of Silas Burroughs, the dynamic young American behind one of Victorian Britains most successful (yet fraught) business partnerships, a major forerunner of todays Big Pharma.
— Christine Macleod, Professor Emerita of History, University of Bristol
Julia Sheppard sets the record straight with an enlightening account of Silas Burroughss life and the importance of the part he played in the creation of an extraordinarily successful institution.
— Anne Hardy, Honorary Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
— Stuart Anderson, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacy History, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Besides a thoroughly engaging story of the American-born entrepreneur, manuf\-acturer and advertising innovator, Julia Sheppard has also given us an important and fascinating insight into the history of the British drug industry and the making of a global pharmaceutical market. This is biography at its very best.
— John Harley Warner, Avalon Professor of the History of Medicine, Yale University
Julia Sheppard has written the definitive biography of Silas Burroughs, the dynamic young American behind one of Victorian Britains most successful (yet fraught) business partnerships, a major forerunner of todays Big Pharma.
— Christine Macleod, Professor Emerita of History, University of Bristol
Julia Sheppard sets the record straight with an enlightening account of Silas Burroughss life and the importance of the part he played in the creation of an extraordinarily successful institution.
— Anne Hardy, Honorary Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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
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